data mining
catdynamics | August 15, 2012
Mining the Astronomical Literature - yes, just ADS not the Asteroids, yet.
Shamelessly cribbed from a thread on the fb Astronomers group
In defence of string theory - rather good post by Matt Strassler
Claim that founding node of networks can be efficiently localized by sparse sampling
Don't Confuse Technology With College Teaching - from the Chronicle
Kepler 11: A Six-Planet Sonata from Alex Parker on Vimeo.
ajakulin | December 18, 2009Wired reports a great new opportunity to make money online by suing internet companies for revealing the data:
An in-the-closet lesbian mother is suing Netflix for privacy invasion, alleging the movie rental company made it possible for her to be outed when it disclosed insufficiently anonymous information about nearly half-a-million customers as part of its $1 million contest to improve its recommendation system.
I'm not sure whether the litigators have read this particular section of the Netflix prize rules:
To prevent certain inferences being drawn about the Netflix customer base, some…