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2007-05-15

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"Only this time the correlation is inverted, but that shouldn't be surprising to anyone - solar-senator effects are complicated!"

2007-05-15-solStat

Stephen Wolfram: '[...] [W]hat is becoming increasingly clear is that one can "mine" what is in the computational universe to find programs--or algorithms--that are useful for many practical purposes.'

2007-05-15-algoMine

Raph Levien: "In any case, one thing seems clear, if surprising: the language of the future is JavaScript."

2007-05-15-futureScript

The BBC axes its online education service, BBC jam, after continued complaints by commercial competitors. Without diving deeper into the whole issue, it's sad and somewhat grotesque.

BBC Trust Press Release

2007-05-15-noJam

Heinz hat sich Fidg't etwas näher angeschaut ...

2007-05-15-heiFi

Bill Softky had a conversation with Franz Josef Och on Google's machine translation efforts; he goes on to dissect [create BLEU] (which turns out to be a rather simplistic metric). Worth a read!

"[...] Google's dramatic win mostly proved that Google gamed the scoring system better than IBM did."

2007-05-15-bleuPrint