Anarchaia

Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

11jul2007

Attacking recommender systems, “A good (but very long) paper by Mobasher et al., “Towards trustworthy recommender systems: An analysis of attack models and algorithm robustness” (PDF), explores a variety of ways of spamming or otherwise manipulating recommendation systems.”

Will the iPhone blend?, yup. Poor thing.

Kiwi cua Trang 3 by trango'

I only heard him slightly
‘Til I heard you whisper
Took you up all in my arms
— Love, Old Man

GSoC: Apotomo: a Widget library for Rails?, by Nick Sutterer. Looks good, but I wonder how RESTful it is.

iPhone Review for Programmers, by Noah Gift.

What is an ISO 8601 Date?, by Rick Jelliffe. “IS 8601 is in an international standard which gives several standard syntaxes for representing Gregorian dates and times.”

Lambda Animator from Mike Thyer is a tool for displaying and experimenting with alternate reduction strategies in the LC.

by almadeus

And as the paint is peeling down off the walls
Put on your cowboy hat girl, I think I hear the call
Of the desert wailing, mad blowing like a street corner saxophone
Calling us home
Calling us home
— Dan Bern, Forever And Ever

Ruby Project Spotlight, June ‘07: Sequel, by Gregory Brown. Sequel is the best SQL interface I know for Ruby, a pleasure to use.

Polar Opposites, by Sgt York. “It makes sense that animals living in polar water would have to come up with a strategy for coping with this cold, salty water. Unlike marine invertebrates, saltwater fish osmoregulate.”