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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Public.Resource.Org is pleased to announce that the inaugural meeting of the International Amateur Scanning League is taking place February 11, 2010. The meeting is taking place at the Sunlight Foundation and we are ver...

I think that it's great that Google is iterating Gmail (read Tim O'Reilly's excellent write up on it HERE), and actually improving an existing product, versus rolling out a knock-off of something that is already in the market. Nonetheless. I am ...

In a week already full of Google announcements, another bomb was casually dropped today via Google's blog. The Borg from California announced that it was experimentally entering the Fiber to the Curb (FTTC) market, and that they planned to offer much higher speeds than current offerings (1Gb/sec) and competitive pricing. The announcement also talks about what, when you remove the marketspeak, is a commitment to net neutrality in their service. This, of course, is not surprising, given Google's strong lob...

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Nikki Graziano's intriguing integration of mathematical curves into her photography sparked a Radar discussion about the relationship between mathematics and the real world. Does her work give insight into the nature of mathematics? Or into th...

1. OSOR.eu -- The OSOR is a platform where public administrations can exchange information and experiences and collaborate in developing free and open source software. The platform has managed to bring together more than 2000 such open source software applications in just sixteen months after its launch. (via EUPractice and vikram_nz on Twitter)
2. Inside Glitch -- writeup of behind-the-scenes during the development of the game Glitch, the new project from Stewart Butterfield, Cal Henderson, Eric Costello, and S...

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Chief Design Advocate

useful cost per acquisition models here

"Work your way UP the funnel, not down"

"Unlike a typical batch machine learning algorithm, which looks at an entire dataset before extracting rules and patterns, an online algorithm simply looks at one sample of the dataset at a time. “The essence of Vowpal Wabbit’s speed is its ability to cover a smaller sample of data and still make the right decisions” Langford explains. As more samples are processed over time, the algorithm can improve, but at least it’s always ready to make a decision." ..... "The algorithm also requires less computing power...
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RFID tagging technology (also uses an updated bar code version). Open development platform.