May 2011
i FINALLY solved a problem that i’ve been working on for two weeks…there is nothing more satisfying than what i’m feeling right now! #iWin
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Spotify – Large Scale, Low Latency, P2P... →
Spotify is a music streaming service offering lowlatency access to a library of over 8 million music tracks. Streaming is performed by a combination of client-server access and a peer-to-peer protocol. In this paper, we give an overview of the protocol and peer-to-peer architecture used and
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Coding a Tetris AI using a Genetic Algorithm →
this 10th grader is solving tetris with genetic algorithms…what the hell was I doing in 10th grade???
i got my google music invite yesterday and i’m already addicted. i’ve been waiting for a service like this for YEARS! great work!
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IBM’s Watson Now A Second-Year Med Student →
IBM late last week renewed its commitment to big data, the white-hot field of analytics and insight-mining. The company promised to invest $100 million in research tools, and threw its weight behind the Hadoop open-source technology used by Google, Yahoo and Facebook for managing globs of unstructured data.
..and my macbook pro is officially dead. glad it made it through the semester. we had some good times together, thanks for the memories #RIP
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Python’s super() considered super! →
If you aren’t wowed by Python’s super() builtin, then chances are that you don’t really know what it is capable of doing or how to use it effectively.
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OneSwarm →
Keeps Big Brother out of your hair by restricting BitTorrent downloads to just your friends
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HeadPhone →
HeadPhone aims to solve the annoying problem of trying to get your co-workers attention while they have their headphones on.
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square-anoia →
click a check-in to view nearby crimes that happened ± 3 hours after your check-in.
while channel surfing, my dad selected “alien sex files 3: alien babes” on hbo…hilarious!!
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Warriors Hire NBA Logo →
Jerry West to the Warriors? Yes, it’s true. In a bold and surprising move, Warriors Owner Joe Lacob has hired Jerry West to be consultant to the Front Office.
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Scrobble to Last.fm with Pianobar →
Pianobar is an excellent command-line Pandora client. It has support for calling external commands when songs play, pause, skip, et cetera via the event_commanddirective. With this, we can add a little scrobbling script and get our listening tracks sent to Last.fm.
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Pastie →
One text box, paste, done.
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Prey Project →
Prey lets you keep track of your phone or laptop at all times, and will help you find it if it ever gets lost or stolen. It’s lightweight, open source software, and free for anyone to use. And it just works.
‘set’ and ‘dry’ are the same pattern on the keyboard, only shifted over one position. now you know.
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Facebook Loses Much Face In Secret Smear On Google →
Facebook secretly hired a PR firm to plant negative stories about Google, says Dan Lyons in a jaw dropping story at the Daily Beast.
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Google Code University →
Here is a list of courses and innovative resources to help CS students, faculty, and instructors. These are examples of the training Google engineers use to learn new skills.
studying for a comprehensive final is an exhausting task. the message is: remember every detail we covered this semester? well, you better!
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How AT&T Recognizes Unauthorized Tethering from... →
In case you didn’t know, AT&T has started cracking down on unauthorized tethering, specifically for jailbroken iPhones on a grandfathered unlimited data plan.
happy mother’s day to @allycat26, the mother of my two kids. you do a decent job feeding them and cleaning their litter box.
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Readable →
Readable is an application that helps you read more of the web. It reformats text — on any website — according to your exact specifications.
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Readable →
Readable is an application that helps you read more of the web. It reformats text — on any website — according to your exact specifications.
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Chat Log: What It Looks Like When Hackers Sell... →
With the number of people exposed in breaches at Sony now topping 100 million, it’s natural to wonder what happens next if your data winds up in the hands of for-profit cybercriminals. The answer is, it probably gets sold for less than the price of first-person-shooter.
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NASA Announces Results of Epic Space-Time... →
Einstein was right again. There is a space-time vortex around Earth, and its shape precisely matches the predictions of Einstein’s theory of gravity.
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Stolen Camera Finder →
stolencamerafinder uses the serial number stored in your photo to search the web for photos taken with the same camera.
thinking positive thoughts for @norcalbro, who’s competing in his first triathalon EVER! kick some ass dude!!