Twitter offers a phenomenal platform for the social sharing of information. We describe new resources that have been created in the context of the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) to support the academic study of Twitter as a real-time information source. We formalize an informat … | Continue reading
Twitter offers a phenomenal platform for the social sharing of information. We describe new resources that have been created in the context of the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) to support the academic study of Twitter as a real-time information source. We formalize an informat … | Continue reading
Information retrieval (IR) systems rely on document relevance assessments for queries to gauge their effectiveness for a variety of tasks, e.g. Web result ranking. Evaluation forums such as TREC and CLEF provide relevance assessments for common tasks. However, it is not possible … | Continue reading
The Twitter real-time information network is the subject of research for information retrieval tasks such as real-time search. However, so far, reproducible experimentation on Twitter data has been impeded by restrictions imposed by the Twitter terms of service. In this paper, we … | Continue reading
In TREC 2011, we focus on tackling the new challenges proposed by the pilot Crowdsourcing and Microblog tracks, using our Terrier Information Retrieval Platform. Meanwhile, we continue to build upon our novel xQuAD framework and data-driven ranking approaches within Terrier to ac … | Continue reading
The influential Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) retrieval conference has always relied upon specialist assessors or occasionally participating groups to create relevance judgements for the tracks that it runs. Recently however, crowdsourcing has been championed as a cheap, fast … | Continue reading
Went to the beach and put the iPhone 5 down to film the sand rushing over the beach propelled by the wind. Maybe not the smartest idea as sand got inside the lighting connector… https://youtu.be/GLyl401Y-1M | Continue reading
Web-based apps that match the speed and responsiveness of native apps are better for users, but they require more investment from product and engineering teams. | Continue reading
Hellz yea, I’m a freaking engineer (sounds more hilarious in my head then it reads). Now who the hell wouldn’t want to be an engineer? Fellow PyLady, Julia Grace, asked about my expectations of being an engineer versus what I actually experienced. TL;DR: It’s awesome. Here’s the … | Continue reading
Hellz yea, I’m a freaking engineer (sounds more hilarious in my head then it reads). Now who the hell wouldn’t want to be an engineer? Fellow PyLady, Julia Grace, asked about my expectations of being an engineer versus what I actually experienced. TL;DR: It’s awesome. Here’s the … | Continue reading
I’ve got a longer post coming about this but just wanted to let everybody know that we’ve got a new iPhone app out! It’s called ‘Faceship’ and for this version 1.0 release its one and only purpose in life is to give people Tiny Faces. Why Tinyfaces? Well, I did this quick video o … | Continue reading
The era of color-coded political parties is more recent than you might think | Continue reading
Zero to one is the process of creating new things while 1 to n is ‘copying things that work.’ | Continue reading
Provision of central support services (CSS) for the implementation of eTwinning and ancillary services to support EU action for schools | Continue reading
I’ve done a bunch of talks lately, in places ranging from Hong Kong to Costa Rica, about the future of cameras and photography. (Here’s one) And one of the things I discuss is this concept of ‘Lifelogging‘ – the idea of wearing an always-on camera constantly, capturing everything … | Continue reading
I had the absolute pleasure attending the first PyCarolinas conference. I was honored when Calvin Spealman invited me to keynote on the topic of community. He wanted folks to leave feeling inspired to build up the area’s sense of community. A lot of pressure, but having a confere … | Continue reading
I had the absolute pleasure attending the first PyCarolinas conference. I was honored when Calvin Spealman invited me to keynote on the topic of community. He wanted folks to leave feeling inspired to build up the area’s sense of community. A lot of pressure, but having a confere … | Continue reading
For the last couple of years, I've been fortunate enough to see quite a few beautiful places on this planet. Most of these pictures were shot by my girlfriend, Tina. My Home Town, Vienna On a broken motorcycle, near the Pakistan border Buddhist temple at Borobudur … | Continue reading
The other day I found myself needing to insert into an array at a given position, so I wrote this little function. For example if you have pulled a list of posts from a database and are going to loop through these to output the HTML, but want to insert an advert after the third p … | Continue reading
This is part 3 in a short intro series for netsec. Part I is on password storage, and part II is on symmetric ciphers. Riddle time: Q: You live in a country with a corrupt mail system. They open every package if they can. You put a lock on the box. You can’t mail a key. How does … | Continue reading
This is part 3 in a short intro series for netsec. Part I is on password storage, and part II is on symmetric ciphers.Riddle time: Q: You live in a country with a corrupt mail system. They open every package if they can. You put a lock on the box. You can’t mail a key. How does t … | Continue reading
An overview of several main ideas from Fred Brooks’ book The Design of Design. | Continue reading
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A continuation of NetSec for n00bs, part I: Password Storage A cipher is basically an algorithm to perform encryption and decryption. Important to note: cipher algorithms, as opposed to hash algorithms, go both ways, meaning if you process a plain text to encrypted text using a c … | Continue reading
A continuation of NetSec for n00bs, part I: Password Storage A cipher is basically an algorithm to perform encryption and decryption. Important to note: cipher algorithms, as opposed to hash algorithms, go both ways, meaning if you process a plain text to encrypted text using a c … | Continue reading
In prepping for my interviews for my newly acquired position with Red Hat for the FreeIPA project, I did my own crash course in studying net security/applied cryptography. It’s a very important subject, and I feel a lot of new developers rely on frameworks or libraries to impleme … | Continue reading
In prepping for my interviews for my newly acquired position with Red Hat for the FreeIPA project, I did my own crash course in studying net security/applied cryptography. It’s a very important subject, and I feel a lot of new developers rely on frameworks or libraries to impleme … | Continue reading
One of the earliest posts I did on this blog related to new technologies in truth-detection and as the political season is heating up again I thought it would be worthwhile to revisit some of those points. (Here’s the original post) In particular, I’m interested in the variety of … | Continue reading
It is my great pleasure (and squee!) to share with my friends, family, PyLadies, twitter nerds, Women Who Code’rs, DevChixen, Systers, and everyone else that I can now say: I am an Engineer. Yes, the same person that once did not know the difference between a compiler and an inte … | Continue reading
It is my great pleasure (and squee!) to share with my friends, family, PyLadies, twitter nerds, Women Who Code’rs, DevChixen, Systers, and everyone else that I can now say: I am an Engineer. Yes, the same person that once did not know the difference between a compiler and an inte … | Continue reading
Digital Media Preservation - Why Media Organizations Can’t Archive Anthony Bouch Mon, 09/17/2012 - 18:59 Digital Media Preservation - Why Media Organizations Can’t Archive Placeholder for Submitted Info Share Placeholder for Feature Image or Video Earlier this year I was fortunat … | Continue reading
As a programmer and a fantasy football addict, I am embarassed by the means through which we must expend ourselves to get data in a machine readable form. This lack of open source software cripples the community with sub-standard tools, and most importantly, detracts from some re … | Continue reading
As the two parties shift their conventions to be mostly virtual, we look at those conventions that made a difference in the country’s political history | Continue reading
I’ll admit it… I have, on occasion, actually watched a movie or two on my iPhone. Forgive me David Lynch (Hell, I’ll even condemn myself to a deeper circle of hell by admitting that I actually watched one of the most glorious wide-screen movies ever – Lawrence of Arabia* – on an … | Continue reading
When I was in high school, I was in “IB” math - the international equivalent to AP courses, except harder. I really, really, really enjoyed math. My teacher would always mispronounce my name (“Wynn!”), but nonetheless, I loved the challenge. I was the only one to receive 100% on … | Continue reading
When I was in high school, I was in “IB” math - the international equivalent to AP courses, except harder. I really, really, really enjoyed math. My teacher would always mispronounce my name (“Wynn!”), but nonetheless, I loved the challenge. I was the only one to receive 100% on … | Continue reading
After my laptop has been running really for a couple of weeks now, I have decided to order some new RAM and do a clean install of Lion. This has given me a great opportunity to configure my development environment in a cleaner and more organised way. As a developer I do install a … | Continue reading
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I've been playing with Ruby on Rails recently and I've been using Pow as a rack server for the applications I'm working on. So I don't have to keep running "rails server" when I want to test an app out. It's a brilliant little tool from 37 Signals that they describe as a zero-con … | Continue reading
Just saw this article on AppleInsider where a photo of one of the original apple tablets prototypes is shown. Quick story about my very brief interaction with this thing. Although the article says that it may have been developed sometime between 2002 and 2004, I’m almost positive … | Continue reading