New York branch of RSCDS organizes a dance event at United Nations every year. All money collected go to UNICEF. This year we collected 1500$.
The floors at United Nations are not all that good to dance on (marble), but it is for a good cause. And it certainly gets a lot of attention from the [...]
I have received the session evaluations from the talk I did at JavaONE(TS-1669) (slides are available). Differently from the evaluation of the talk two years ago, this time it is more scientific. I guess pushing the evaluation paper on every attendee has paid of.
I am quite happy with the result. The top two [...]
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Even the basic techniques from the computational linguistics field can make for interesting and intriguing applications. Gutenkarte takes public domain books, extract geographic names present in the text and plots them on the map. The result is an automatic clustering of place references, both visually and (within single click) textually.
The site itself is self-explanatory, but [...]
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I had ignored someone’s identical advice and 20 minutes of my life is now gone. So, I pass on the advice, in the hopes that others have more resistance than me.
If you are week of spirit however, make sure you are alone in [...]