These are my links for March 5th through March 12th:
- R Videos – Online instructional videos for R.
- Flickr: Creative Commons – Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license.
- Welcome to Apache Hadoop! – The Apache Hadoop project develops open-source software for reliable, scalable, distributed computing. Hadoop includes these subprojects:
* Hadoop Common: The common utilities that support the other Hadoop subprojects.
* Avro: A data serialization system that provides dynamic integration with scripting languages.
* Chukwa: A data collection system for managing large distributed systems.
* HBase: A scalable, distributed database that supports structured data storage for large tables.
* HDFS: A distributed file system that provides high throughput access to application data.
* Hive: A data warehouse infrastructure that provides data summarization and ad hoc querying.
* MapReduce: A software framework for distributed processing of large data sets on compute clusters.
* Pig: A high-level data-flow language and execution framework for parallel computation.
* ZooKeeper: A high-performance coordination service for distributed applications.
These are my links for March 2nd through March 4th:
- Infochimps :: Find Any Dataset in the World – Infochimps is an open library and marketplace for the world's data. You can share, sell, curate, and download data about anything and everything.
- MoWeS Portable – CH Software – MoWeS Portable II is a free software that enables you to quickly set up a WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP) system on any Windows system. Additionally, you can download so-called packages. Packages contain application software, such as TYPO3, MediaWiki, WordPress, Joomla!, etc., and are installed automatically.
- TrueCrypt – Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows 7/Vista/XP, Mac OS X and Linux – Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows 7/Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux
- PortableApps.com – Portable software for USB drives – PortableApps.com provides a truly open platform that works with any hardware you like (USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive, etc). The entire platform is open source built around an open format that any hardware or software provider can use.
These are my links for February 8th through February 12th:
- Found Functions – Photographs with superimposed graphs and functions
- Corrupted Blood incident – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – The Corrupted Blood incident was a widely reported virtual plague outbreak and video game glitch found in the Blizzard Entertainment computer game World of Warcraft, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game in the Warcraft series. The plague began on September 13, 2005, when an area was introduced in a new update. One boss could cast a spell called Corrupted Blood, which would deal a certain amount of damage over a period of time, and which could be transferred from character to character. It was intended to be exclusive to this area, but players discovered ways to take it out, causing an epidemic across several servers. During the epidemic, some players would help combat the disease by volunteering healing services, while select others would maliciously spread the disease.
- Open source hardware is the new Big thing! | harkopen.com – Harkopen.com connects !
Our main goal of this site is to help the world interconnect. By offering smart tools to post electronics projects and find parts and by the other side to offer services, tools and help we can grow faster together and make awesome open tech.
Harkopen helps the hobbyist !
Welcome techie ! We know you like electronics and all things that you can invent, modify, improve, extend so we are offering you the web tools to enhance your experience.
Harkopen empowers the provider !
We help you reach out a targeted audience of smart and curious minds set to explore and create. Offer parts, tools, services and support here and connect with your clients.
- In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits | Magazine – Here’s the history of two decades in one sentence: If the past 10 years have been about discovering post-institutional social models on the Web, then the next 10 years will be about applying them to the real world.
This story is about the next 10 years.
Transformative change happens when industries democratize, when they’re ripped from the sole domain of companies, governments, and other institutions and handed over to regular folks. The Internet democratized publishing, broadcasting, and communications, and the consequence was a massive increase in the range of both participation and participants in everything digital — the long tail of bits.
Now the same is happening to manufacturing — the long tail of things.
These are my links for January 28th through February 1st:
- Keeping computers from ending science’s reproducibility – In recent years, scientists may have inadvertently given up on a key component of the scientific method: reproducibility. That’s an argument that’s being advanced by a number of people who have been tracking our increasing reliance on computational methods in all areas of science. An apparently simple computerized analysis may now involve a complex pipeline of software tools; reproducing it will require version control for both software and data, along with careful documentation of the precise parameters used at every step. Some researchers are now getting concerned that their peers simply aren’t up to the challenge, and we need to start providing the legal and software tools to make it easier for them.
- The Document Which Was Formerly Called The MIT Guide to Lockpicking – I am told that the university which has its’ name associated with this document would prefer not to. Fine. I will now no longer refer to it as The MIT Guide To Lockpicking or The MIT Lockpicking Guide. Truth be told, I am a member of the Bavarian Illuminati and I wrote it myself shortly after I instigated Watergate and the Cuban Missile Crisis. I hereby absolve a certain highly respectable university in Massachusets from any and all responsibility for this document.
- Game Theory – Game theory is a fascinating subject….there is a vast area of economic games, and the related political games, The competition between firms, the conflict between management and labor, the fight to get bills through congress, the power of the judiciary, war and peace negotiations between countries, and so on, all provide examples of games in action. There are also psychological games played on a personal level, where the weapons are words, and the payoffs are good or bad feelings, Berne (1964). There are biological games, the competition between species, where natural selection can be modeled as a game played between genes, Smith (1982). There is a connection between game theory and the mathematical areas of logic and computer science. One may view theoretical statistics as a two person game in which nature takes the role of one of the players, as in Blackwell and Girshick (1954) and Ferguson (1968).
These are my links for September 8th through September 14th:
- Jaakko Hintikka, Past, present and future of set theory | PhilPapers – What one can say about the past, present and future of set theory depends on what one expects or at least hopes set theory will accomplish…I begin with a quote from the inaugural lecture in 1903 of my mathematical grandfather, the internationally known Finnish mathematician Ernst Lindelöf. The subject of his lecture was – guess what – Cantor’s set theory. In his conclusion, Lindelöf says of Cantor’s results: For mathematics they have lent new tools and opened up new fields of research, they have thrown entirely new light on the foundations of analysis and brought clarity and order where there was only disorder and contradictions. Thus they have greatly contributed to the harmony that is the essence of mathematics, a harmony a grasp of which is the reward of mathematical research. We can all agree with the compliments Lindelöf pays to set theory as an impressive specimen of mathematical research, including the theory of infinite cardinals and ordinals.
- An Introduction to Data Mining – Data mining, the extraction of hidden predictive information from large databases, is a powerful new technology with great potential to help companies focus on the most important information in their data warehouses. Data mining tools predict future trends and behaviors, allowing businesses to make proactive, knowledge-driven decisions. The automated, prospective analyses offered by data mining move beyond the analyses of past events provided by retrospective tools typical of decision support systems. Data mining tools can answer business questions that traditionally were too time consuming to resolve. They scour databases for hidden patterns, finding predictive information that experts may miss because it lies outside their expectations.
- Open Source BI: A Market Overview, Steve Holub – “The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.”John Maynard Keynes
The following survey provides a list of open source software (OSS) tools used in business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing systems. The tool selection criteria was based on the frequency and currency of the releases and on whether the product has released a stable build which could be used in a production environment. We only present those solutions which have had updates within the past two years. Our study looked at BI tools in the following categories: i) databases; ii) extract/transform/load (ETL); iii) master data management; iv) BI reporting tools; and v) data mining. In the case of an open source software bundle that overlaps categories, we divide the software bundle into its separate parts for ease of categorization.
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