The second workshop on large scale recommender systems will be at SIGKDD in Las Vegas this year. One of the main topics is the Netflix competition and Jim Bennett of Netflix is one of the co-chairs, so there should be some interesting stuff in that area. Plus all the other cool stuff going on with [...]
Archive for 7 April 2008
SIGKDD Workshop on Large Scale Recommender Systems
Posted: 7 April 2008 in UncategorizedTags: cfp, conferences, netflix prize, recommender systems, sigkdd
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A Flyby of Warthogs
Posted: 7 April 2008 in UncategorizedTags: a10 warthogs, airplanes, childhood, jets, lizard man, military, pittsburgh, south carolina
I have no idea why, but four A-10 Warthogs made several circuits around the skies of Pittsburgh today. They are quite noisy, subsonic jets used by the military against armored vehicles and ground positions. The last time I had seen one outside of an air show or museum was when I was kid camping in [...]
