Switzerland is an ideal study tour locale for learning about cheese making and aging. In many of the small villages, there are still family operations of 2 or 3 people that make very high quality specialty cheeses.
mmmm
Month: August 2007
Restrictive Yelp API
if Yelp is really as good as it thinks it is, it wouldn’t need to put limits on the competition. After all, Google’s Maps API, the Flickr API and 10s of other similar APIs contain no such restrictions.
such insecurity
Media at Work
After she had already declined to get a press pass several times, organizers fooled her, leading her to believe that she could get video of a federal agent being outed on the conference hall floor.
pro media = hacks, more often than not.
Timeplot
similar to timeline. the ploy to get interesting semweb data sets by dangling nice viz tools in front of prospective users continues.
Crawl Stats
Another is how few startups are actually crawling… And the ones that are aren’t correlated with the folks getting buzz right now. In 3 months of data I didn’t see a single visit from Powerset.
HTML5 Distributed Extensibility
If we can imagine a world where a large number of people can make such large extensions to HTML, it is incumbent on us to think about how to prevent harmful extension overlap, and how extensions might be processed by user agents that aren’t aware of either.
Yahoo! bet on Hadoop
tim discovers what has been known for more than a year: yahoo trying to compete by open sourcing core google technologies. conveniently, they had various published papers to help them with the implementation..
Global Grid
Converting the worlds power lines to DC would cost terabucks and save terawatts. it would allow for a global energy grid with all its load balancing advantages.
the premier global strategy is the interconnection of electric power networks between regions and continents into a global energy grid, with an emphasis on tapping abundant renewable energy resources – a world wide web of electricity.
2016-11-14: Asia Super Grid
Entrepreneurs in China, South Korea, Russia, and Japan have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that seeks to create the Asia Super Grid. It will transmit electrical power from renewable sources from areas of the world that are best able to produce it to consumers in other parts of the world. The idea is dependent on development of an ultra-high voltage grid operating at 1000 kilovolts AC and 800 kilovolts DC over 1000s of kilometers. It envisions interconnecting grids across regions, nations, and even continents with a capacity of 10 gigawatts.
2022-01-04: This doesn’t make a lot of sense for the reasons explained in this video: Huge cost for the grid, red tape.
Fuzzing for correctness
This pair of checks doesn’t find all decompiler bugs, of course, but it finds quite a few of them. jsfunfuzz has a few other correctness checks for things like unnecessary parentheses in decompiled code and bogus results from object uneval.
i wonder if this works for all js engines
National Energy Grid
national energy grid maps (HVAC/HVDC transmission maps) of many countries
Gregor J. Rothfuss 