The blagoblag is abuzz with word of cuil, a search engine launched by some former Google engineers. After many hours of downtime, I was able to check it out a short while ago. The unfortunate result: it blows. It’s so bad that it’s as bad as your brain can comprehend. Supposedly there are three times [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Cuil Fail
Posted: 28 July 2008 in UncategorizedTags: blagoblag, cuil, fail, google, search engines, spam, startups
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A forest of Jason Adamses
Posted: 16 July 2008 in UncategorizedTags: baby names, google, googlewhackblatt, jason adams, names
I think there must be literally thousands of guys with the name Jason Adams in the English speaking world. There are many who share my middle initial (Jason M. Adams) and I’ve encountered several with the same middle name: Michael. Really, my parents couldn’t have given me a more common name, and Jason was a [...]
Mind maps
Posted: 12 July 2008 in UncategorizedTags: computational linguistics, diagrams, freemind, graphs, jobs, mind maps, mind42, organization, thoughts, web apps
Mind42 is a web-based mind mapping app that I used about six months ago and forgot about. They just recently ended their so-called beta stage, which reminded me that they existed. After giving them another spin, I think I’m going to start using mind maps more often. I also used FreeMind for a while, but [...]
Important observation
Posted: 11 July 2008 in UncategorizedTags: blagoblag, blog stats, humor, leet
Range voting is cool
Posted: 10 July 2008 in UncategorizedTags: bayesian regret, crowd wisdom, plurality voting, presidential election, range voting, simulations, voting systems, warren smith
I have just joined a reading group related to prediction markets and crowd wisdom. One topic that has come up is range voting. Our current election system in the US is known as plurality voting: the person with the most votes wins. This is fine in elections with two candidates, but when there are more [...]
Random Job Search Thoughts
Posted: 9 July 2008 in UncategorizedTags: big corporations, computational linguistics, java, job search, jobs, nlp, recruiters
So I am on the market after getting my masters. I’ve posted my resume to Dice and Monster and a couple others. Monster gets the most unsolicited calls. I’m finding that recruiters are an odd lot. There are some who are pleasant, though to a man (or woman) they’ve never heard of NLP or computational [...]
Largest Moth in North America
Posted: 4 July 2008 in UncategorizedTags: cecropia moths, insects, moths, pennsylvania
While travelling to York, PA yesterday to visit my wife’s family, I spotted a large moth under a pine tree. Daedalus was sniffing around the tree and this bright orange thing caught my eye. It was very lethargic, so I imagine it was either sleepy (since moths tend to be nocturnal) or about to die. [...]
Stacked Agents Model
Posted: 3 July 2008 in UncategorizedTags: cmu, collaborative filtering, computational linguistics, information retrieval, machine learning, presentations, recommender systems, research
This is research I did a while ago and presented Monday to fulfill the requirements of my Masters degree. The presentation only needed to be about 20 minutes, so it was a very short intro. We have moved on since then, so when I say future work, I really mean future work. The post is [...]
