Archive: October 31, 2005

Monday, October 31, 2005

1. Joseph Scott’s Blog » Fake Fork in PHP.

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2. The CRM114 Discriminator - The Controllable Regex Mutilator:

   CRM114 is a system to examine incoming e-mail, system log streams, data files or other data streams, and to sort, filter, or alter the incoming files or data streams according to the user's wildest desires. Criteria for categorization of data can be by satisfaction of regexes, by sparse binary polynomial matching with a Bayesian Chain Rule evaluator, a Hidden Markov Model, or by other means. Accuracy of the SBPH/BCR classifier has been seen in excess of 99 per cent, for 1/4 megabyte of learning text. In other words, CRM114 learns, and it learns fast.

   Via Keith.

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3. Kevin Burton's Feed Blog: What's Next After MySQL 5.0 (via Alex):

   This is just insane. In MySQL if you write a subquery like:
   
   SELECT * FROM FOO WHERE ID IN ( SELECT FOO_ID FROM BAR )
   
   IT won't use an index. Fun. Full table scan baby!

   Whoa! That's awful.

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4. Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker: Getting In: The social logic of Ivy League admissions, (via Adam Langley). To read. Apparently, from Adam's description of Gladwell's talk at Google, he argues that success isn't primarily driven by going to Harvard, but by being the type of person who'd apply to Harvard in the first place.

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