Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Many valuable text databases on the web have non-crawlable
contents that are "hidden" behind search interfaces. H ...
engines do not index this valuable information. One wa ...
to "hidden-web" databases is through commercial Yahoo! ...
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It is tempting to conclude from this record that functio... have what it takes. They may make sense for certain limi... and contain useful concepts to be imported into other la... imperative and object-oriented languages are simply bett...
Tempting as

In many EU countries there is a requirement to count res... measure and prove its value. These numbers, often produc... based on the impact of journals, are used to rank univer... determine fund distribution, to evaluate research propos... determine t

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is... exciting discoveries. Milne, A. A.

If you talk to enough people at the Finnish mobile start... point it occurs to you that the company it most resemble...
Sailfish, Jolla insists, will become a legitimate altern ...
“China… is the most dynamic smartphone market—it†...
Jolla canno

Can an algorithm be racist? It’s a question that shoul... all data-driven organizations.

A recently published research paper (paywall) by David E... Bank and Anna Popova of Stanford University shows that g... poor has a negative effect on the consumption of tobacco... and Popova’s research is based on an examination of ni... assess the

Remember the days before you could pull your smartphone ... and get instant directions from your current location to... world? It's kind of foggy for me, too.
In fact, I'm so used to relying on my smartphone that I ...
The answer is "yes," of course. B

behind every successful Web 2.0 company there'll be some... the user.

I was recently in a discussion where one person quoted f... conference that as a UX designer you should always offer... desktop" route on a mobile website because users can't a... they want on a mobile. If this sounds a common problem t... somewhere i

This firefox add-on lets you visualize all the RDFa data... page, shows a list with errors and warnings found while ... document, and allows to execute SPARQL queries on the RD...

Intel’s just-announced Edison computer—the one the s... card—illustrates the corollary to Moore’s Law. If yo... more circuits on a piece of silicon, you can also make c... smaller and smaller. And this heralds a whole new way of... computing,

I’ve now finished the Coursera Human Computer Interact... await my final grade, I reflect on my experience, on the... student numbers, and on how the platform can develop.
It’s been a wonderfully wide-ranging course, spanning ...

How to get yourself sacked using Facebook
Personally, I’ve been trying to avoid having too many ...
It can be useful, though, for helping you sack those not ...
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Prescription for an electronic revolution?
14 December 2007
PA284/07
Patients could be saved millions of trips to their GP un ...
... h expertise in the field of prescribing in primary care.

adding images into QR Codes

This document describes how a subset of RDF can be embed... HTML by using common idioms and attributes. No new eleme...
Note: hereafter the term HTML will be used to include bo ...
Embeddable RDF
The subset of RDF that is used in this embedding scheme

SAGE Publishers is retracting 60 articles from the Journ... Control after an investigation revealed a “peer review... ring” involving a professor in Taiwan.

So all those companies advertising for a Data Scientist,... this to say…
You want a Dancer not a Scientist.

Ripple is a dedicated scripting language for the Semanti... programs not only query the Semantic Web, but also resid... data structures, forming a global network of interlinked... is best classified as a relational stack language, close... functional

LED Coffee Table
LED Coffee Table
OK, this is one of the most unique coffee tables I’ve ...

We have posted pics of some truly messy data center cabl...
Artful cabling 1
Courtesy of Digital:Slurp.
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... re this is practical or not, but it LOOKS impressive…)

A review of the state of our knowledge regarding problem... it work? What is insight? How can we boost our creativit... problem solving performance?

Background Real science has the potential to not only am... transform the way one thinks of the world and oneself. T... process of science is little different from the deeply r... processes of play. Play enables humans (and other mammal...
Principal f

Update: New blog entry: Introducing S4
S4 is a general-purpose, distributed, scalable, partiall ...

7.6.1. Mapping Entities to Handlers
Applications can register themselves with Launch Service ...
[23] Although UTI support was introduced in Mac OS X 10. ...
Typically, registration with Launch Services occurs auto ...

Visual Prozac: The Unexpected Beauty of Abandoned Psychi...
Sometimes the most beautiful things come from unexpected ...

“The glasses work by selectively removing certain wave... red and green cones that allow them to be in essence pus... said Don McPherson, EnChroma’s VP of products.