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How to make $20 at OfficeMax
1. You buy a new Cisco linksys wireless router (WRT160N) before Christmas since your old Linksys (WRT54G v5.0) is showing its age. Cost is $100 – $20 (promotional discount). 2. You realize that the new router is dropping the Internet connection so you decide to return it (but you can’t find the receipt). 3. The…
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"Eventually Consistent"
Great article by Werner Vogels.
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"Biohackers"
Fascinating! Biotech revolution coming from people’s garages. 🙂 Excellent.
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Knowledge representation… not the best example 🙂
I’ve been looking at the OpenCyc Foundation’s Concept Browser page. I searched for the concept “product”. It took me to a helpful page that says: Each instance of sales product is a thing that exists in time that is, or was at one time, offered for sale or performed as a commercial service, or was…
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Queen Anne covered in snow
Many of you might have heard about the snowstorms that have hit the US over the last week or so. I live on a hill, not far from Seattle’s downtown, called Queen Anne. The roads in my neighborhood get really icy every year, making driving around a very difficult task. I wasn’t expecting that I’d…
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Quotes from Sowa’s book
As I was reading Sowa‘s “Knowledge Representation – Logical, Philosophical, and Computational Foundations”, I noted few funny quotes. I don’t know whether Sowa heard them from others or they are his. Commenting on a bad but common practice: “Code first and think later”; Talking about the different views of the world by fourth generation languages,…
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Famulus and M – Added "symmetric" relation
Continuing my previous experiment, I took few mins this morning to add support for “symmetric” relations to my little inferencing engine for Famulus. Here’s an example (starting with a clean Famulus store):
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Woo hoo… ski season is here 🙂
Working from home today, which is probably true for most around here. Nothing moves outside, at least in my neighborhood 🙂
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Building an MGrammar-based application for Famulus
At the 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop, Alex Wade and I presented a tutorial on Famulus. The video recording is not yet online but you can download the slides. The tutorial was mostly filled with demos so you should check out the recording when it becomes available. Alex and I showed how Famulus could be used…
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James moving to Amazon
James announced to the world (and it’s all over the tech news) that he’s moving to Amazon. This is a huge loss for Microsoft but I am super happy for James because, as he says in his blog post, change is good. Through my interactions with him, I came to realize that he’s super super…