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Teaching artificial intelligences through correlations instead of models

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:21:46 GMT

“We can throw the numbers into the biggest computing clusters the world has ever seen and let statistical algorithms find patterns where science cannot.” More on the topic at Wired.

Link: http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/06/the_google_way.php

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Using a Lot of Disk Space to Scale

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:15:54 GMT

Link: http://highscalability.com/how-i-learned-stop-worrying-and-love-using-lot-disk-space-scale

Should web giants let startups use the information they have about you?

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:30:16 GMT

Of course! But startups should use it at their own peril.

Link: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-01/ff_scraping?currentPage=all

Data Visualization: Modern Approaches

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:15:23 GMT

Some beautiful visualization techniques for our data-filled world.

Link: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/02/data-visualization-modern-approaches/

Move your iTunes music while preserving library data

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Thu, 10 May 2007 19:11:20 GMT

Great if you, say, want to move your library to a network drive but don’t want to lose your ratings, playlists, and other such nonsense. It’s a time-consuming process though.

Link: http://hifiblog.com/past/2006/05/11/howto-move-your-itunes-music-while-preserving-library-data-when-you-dont-let-itunes-manage-your-music-library/

Ambient information

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:48:37 GMT

Jeff Veen on designing Google Reader’s trends. This is a small glimpse of something we’re going to see even more of — companies capitalizing on data points “between” the data points.

Link: http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000955.html

Flickr: Camera Finder

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:49:55 GMT

Flickr takes its camera use data and builds a database of popular cameras complete with graphs showing the rise and fall of various types. Awesome stuff.

Link: http://www.flickr.com/cameras/