Wolfram|Alpha now does estimations. Also, it brings back memories to one Friday where we decided to figure out how many Olsen (cubic light years of beer) could theoretically fit in the universe if the universe’s mass was all beer. Then, we spent a good half hour looking for estimates of the mass of the universe, […]
Fast and Accurate Declare Mining
Presentation I’ll give in two weeks. How to be significantly faster at mining Declare than any existing tool, and at the same time get much better models. Abstract Declarative models make it possible to describe changing systems or systems with a lot of freedom by imposing global constraints instead of explicitly defining the flow of […]
Dear Paypal…
Dear online services everywhere (in particular PayPal), You do not increase security by asking browser not to remember passwords. You decrease security. The consequence is that either I defect to another service, or I go with the equivalent of “password123” on your site. Allowing my browser to remember the password increases security, because then I […]
Boredness-Index
BI, or boredness-index is the new buzzword. So, how can we measure this very interesting concept? One scientifically sound way is by the number of Facebook posts made a week. Normally, this value is hard to measure, but as I started copying all my Facebook status messages to my own blog last year, I have […]
Live-blog from Gaga Concert on iTunes Festival
This month is the iTunes Festival. If you aren’t following along, you definitely should. It’s basically two hours of free music live every evening in September. It kicked off with Lady Gaga, and despite being on my way to bed (it starts at 21 GMT = midnight in Moscow), I decided to follow along. Being […]
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Russian Super Markets
Fun times. I just spent 30 minutes in line at the super market. It went like this: I’m in line. Some old woman tries to cheat in front of the line, waving just one liter of milk. I block her. I realize the line I’m in is moving at a glacial speed, so I switch […]