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Find a prime around 6e6   09 Dec 09
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Sven C. Koehler showed me that Wolfram Alpha is actually useful for smoething.

Blog on online advertisement   24 Feb 07
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Personifi is a Texas based startup that uses tons of statistics/maths to make the ad-market much better targeted. It’s a heavy ruby/C/R based shop. They are still pretty much in stealth mode, but they put up a blog.

They got zillions of interesting parallel computing and Bayesian maths problems. More to follow ..

One of the lessons I learnt sofar from this venture is that if you have enough data, you do not need to be too smart as things have nicely converged :-).

Great slides about the internals of google   16 Feb 07
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Highly recommended

Towards a more efficient computing infrastructure   27 Sep 06
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Interesting Google blog entry

 

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