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energy from ocean currents

30 Nov 08

Very very good article.

This, combined with simple solarthermal power generation is the future.

Task boundaries using a classifier		26 Nov 08
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Also worth reading: glinden.blogspot.com/2008/11/finding-task-boundaries-in-search-logs.html

Near duplicate detection		26 Nov 08
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Clever. Recommended reading. glinden.blogspot.com/2008/08/clever-method-of-near-duplicate.html

New forum for Latinos living around lake Starnberg		25 Nov 08
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La idea es juntar a todos los latinoamericanos y personas de habla hispana que vivan en la zona de Starnberger See y alrededores y tengan ganas de compartir experiencias con otros hermanos. s2.elforo.de/latinosensta/

memcache-client vs memcached

25 Nov 08

OK, on OS-X, the memcached gem is much faster. On gentoo it hardly matters which one you use.

Facebook in reality		25 Nov 08
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A big thanks to Mathieu for emailing me this link :-). www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrlSkU0TFLs

Beautiful Alesund in Norway		24 Nov 08
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www.flickr.com/photos/tags/%C3%A5lesund/

ruby wanted on the nvidia tesla

23 Nov 08

I wish ruby were running on this baby :-).

Einstein's messy desk		23 Nov 08
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as I am such a chaotic person myself, I like it :-).

Third base: fast and easy date/datetime class		22 Nov 08
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The Ruby standard Date class tries to be all things to all people. While it does a decent job, it’s slow enough to be the bottleneck in some applications. If we decide not to care about the Date of Calendar Reform and the fact that the Astronomical Julian Date differs from the Julian Date, much of the complexity of Ruby’s standard Date/DateTime class can be removed, and there can be significant improvements in speed. third-base.rubyforge.org/

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