Image via CrunchBase It looks like some of the top players in the Netflix Prize competition have teamed up and finally broke the 10% improvement barrier. I know I’m a few days late on this, though not because I didn’t see when it happened. I’ve been battling an ear infection all week and it has [...]
Posts Tagged ‘research’
Netflix Prize just about wrapped up
Posted: 2 July 2009 in UncategorizedTags: clerk dogs, cmu, collaborative filtering, discovery engines, graduate school, hcir, human computer information retrieval, machine learning, movies, netflix, netflix prize, recommender systems, research
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The Stack Overflow of Academia
Posted: 7 February 2009 in UncategorizedTags: academia, academic publishing, computer science, herd review, karma, luis von ahn, peer review, reddit, research, stackoverflow, wiki
Luis von Ahn has an insightful post lamenting the fact that we are holding onto a paper-world philosophy of academic publishing in a digital age. He kicks out the fledgling idea that a “wiki, karma, and a voting method like reddit” hybrid might supplant our current method. I’m always a little confused by the reluctance [...]
10 Reasons to Use Git for Research
Posted: 30 November 2008 in UncategorizedTags: academia, coding, computational linguistics, computer science, cvs, git, github, productivity, reproducibility, research, subversion, version control systems
Git is a version control system that has been gaining in popularity recently. If you have heard of or used Subversion or CVS, you are familiar with the basic principle of keeping track of changes by multiple users in a series of documents (source code, text files, etc). One of the chief benefits of version [...]
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 [...]
Games with a Purpose
Posted: 14 May 2008 in UncategorizedTags: ai, cmu, computer science, games, gaming, gwap, human computation, luis von ahn, research
Today is the official opening day of GWAP: Games with a Purpose. This is one of two research projects I have been working on for the past few months, though my involvement with GWAP so far has only been in the form of attending meetings, minor testing, and offering my sage gaming advice (and by [...]
Microsoft Yahoo! Live ™
Posted: 1 February 2008 in UncategorizedTags: acquisitions, google, mergers, microsoft, monopolies, research, yahoo
CNN is reporting that Microsoft is making eyes at Yahoo! to the tune of $31 per share, or about $44.6 billion. If such a deal ever materialized, it would definitely make things interesting for Google. Personally I consider both Microsoft Live search and Yahoo to be inferior products to the Google, but two wrongs make [...]
Invisibility Cloak a reality… sorta
Posted: 3 October 2007 in UncategorizedTags: boffins, invisibility, invisibility cloak, physics, research, science
There has been work done over the past year or so by the Department of Mysteries at St. Andrews College. They also are working on levitation, which I talked about before. They created an invisibility cloak that worked in the microwave region. A group in the US has just produced an invisibility cloak that works [...]
