Congrats to my colleague Matthew Russell on the publication of his new O’Reilly book, “Dojo: The Definitive Guide“.
Recommended!
My friend and colleague Peter Mancini has posted an excellent look at some of the issues in assessing the quality of natural language processing tools on our company blog.
Pete has some very interesting ideas for how to approach quality assessment of association networks. Watch for more from him on our blog.
Sun Microsystems has written and published a “Customer Snapshot” highlighting how we used Java and various development tools and methodologies to build our Interceptor Suite.
Click here to read the article.
The article highlights some of our pre-existing intelligence and government work. I also hope to get another Sun snapshot covering our new commercial efforts published as soon as we are ready to dive into the details.
[Cross-posted from the Digital Reasoning Systems, Inc. blog]
We released GeoLocator 2.1 and I wanted to blog a short bit about the release announcement so that readers can link to the press release for details.
The announcement notes:
GeoLocator™ 2.1 can process over 14,000 text files every hour, with each text file averaging around seven kilobytes each. That is the equivalent of reading War and Peace, which is almost 1500 pages long, 33 times in an hour. In fact, if you were to print all of those text files on standard, letter-size paper and set them side-by-side you could cover almost 35 acres.
Reading “War and Peace“, including extracting all of the locations in it and aligning them to geocoordinates, in less than 2 minutes. That’s fast!
Learn more from the GeoLocator page here.
[Cross-posted from the Digital Reasoning Systems, Inc. blog; subscribe here]
I’m a TripIt and Dopplr user, but of the two I’ve been far more impressed with TripIt of late. I’ve found organizing and sharing trips easier with TripIt, and the depth of information provided by its automagic plans@tripit email import far surpass Dopplr in my experience using both the last few months.
So I was very happy to see the interview with TripIt President Gregg Brockway:
Go, TripIt, go! Now off to get all of my Dopplr colleagues to give TripIt a shot, too…
Read more about the interview from the TripIt blog here.
Thank you National Geographic for answering my open letter to you with a fair assessment of the necessity of hunting in the recent article “Hunters: For Love of the Land“.
As author Robert Poole notes in the article:
“It’s the hunters who keep most of these species going,” said Jim Clay, a middle school English teacher, hunter, and maker of turkey calls in Winchester, Virginia. “They put in the money, and they put in the hours. Hunters really care about what happens.”
Though there are bad apples in all lots of people, for the most part hunters and fishermen love the land and its creatures. We know humans are an inextricable part of nature, and nature of us. We need wild creatures and wild places to nourish the soul and free the spirit. And we intend to make certain that both continue on, long past our own time, so that our grandchildren and their grandchildren’s grandchildren can cherish them just as we do.
To the extent that Mr. Poole’s article captures that passion for conservation and recognition of the interdependence of all things, he got it just right.
Investor’s Business Daily’s recent “Columbine To Va. Tech To NIU: Gun-Free Zones Or Killing Fields?” article by John R. Lott, Jr
Gun-free zones are magnets for bad guys.
I applaud the Oklahoma House of Representatives for considering a bill that would allow properly vetted concealed weapon license holders to carry on college and university campuses.
As Article 2, Section 26 of the Oklahoma State Constitution declares:
The right of a citizen to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person, or property, or in aid of the civil power, when thereunto legally summoned, shall never be prohibited
It is your right to defend yourself and your family. I’d go one step further and say it’s your responsibility, too. If your Oklahoma Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training certified gun safety instructor, your county sheriff, and the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation have tested your knowledge of the Oklahoma Self Defense Act, verified your safe handling and use of a handgun, run extensive local, state, and federal criminal and mental health background checks, and processed your properly submitted concealed weapons license application to prove you are otherwise eligible (all of these steps are required for one to be issued an Oklahoma license), why should you be denied your basic right to self defense just because you walk onto a college campus?
Thank you, Rep. Murphey and the House Judiciary and Public Safety Committee, for submitting and approving in committee Oklahoma House Bill 2513 which would allow license holders to defend themselves on campus. Now please stay the course and get this through the system and into law. This won’t stop crazies on campus completely, but it could certainly help to curtail the severity of their attacks.
Digital Reasoning Systems CEO Tim Estes recently launched our new blog with his post on “Web 3.0 and its discontents“.
As Tim notes in the opening to his inaugural post:
For my first post to our new blog, I thought I would jump into an area that is of great and timely interest: The emerging “Semantic Web” and the technologies and solutions proposed to enable it.
There has been a lot of “Web 3.0″ buzz in the last year. See for example this MIT “Technology Review” article, Business 2.0’s piece on Radar Networks, the New York Times’ Metaweb article, and John Markoff’s original Web 3.0 article from the NY Times in late 2006. The reaction in the blogsphere has been equally interesting. There appears to be a combination of believers and advocates, both Web 2.0 players who are mad at the hype being stolen and those who are skeptics. If I were to put myself in a camp, I’d have to say I’m an “optimistic skeptic”.
I believe something like this vision of Web 3.0 will play out, but it might take the market six or seven “attempters” before we find a Google of Web 3.0.
Whoever eventually gets it right must overcome at least three critical issues to make the Web 3.0 vision reality. I’ll lay them out here.
I would highly recommend that anyone interested in the semantic web and where things are headed read this post. It clarifies a number of issues that are commonly confused or skipped over. Highly recommended.
And while you’re there, btw, why not subscribe to our feed to automagically get future updates?
I blogged about the new “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” movie trailer and “LEGO Indiana Jones” videogame preview on Geekdad today.
Read the Geekdad post for the whole skinny, or watch the movie trailer below for a sneak peek:
96 days to go, and counting!
Another day, another Geekdad post:
Check out my “Star Wars Crafts for Kids” published today on Wired’s Geekdad blog. Video from Craft Magazine’s original post:
I’ve blogged about two of my favorite geeky TV shows, “Jericho” and “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles“, over on Geekdad.
Check out the full post here. Trailers for both follow.
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