Monthly Archives: July 2006

Feature Extraction Revisited

A visit to pandora.com prompted me to revisit the topic of feature extraction. Tim Westergren’s Music Genome Project is probably one of the coolest ways of exploring feature extraction and relevance feedback: The feature extraction part extracts the “phenotypes” from … Continue reading

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Read this book: Linked

Albert-László Barabási’s book Linked: The New Science of Networks is probably one of the books that stand out from the ones I read in 2004.The author does a marvelous job of pointing out that many hubs we know of (including … Continue reading

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Distributed Systems are Hard

Working with distributed systems is hard. Many programmers who otherwise do a very good job writing application code do not fully grasp the challlenges of distributed computing.One of these challenges stems from having to deal with errors that you’d not … Continue reading

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