February 2008

I’m teaching the course ‘Information Extraction Algorithms’ (well, pure data mining in practice) at the post-graduate program  ’Applied Mathematical Sciences’ of NTUA’s School of Applied Mathematics and Physics. I’m strongly considering the idea of employing a blog to serve at the core of the learning process. The class is held at a pc-lab, so it came …

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Prediction Markets most popular topic in Collective Intelligence FooCamp, held a couple of days ago at Google, with an awesome list of attendees (coverage here and here)

It is possible that the many, no one of whom taken singly is a sound man, may yet, taken all together, be better than the few, not individually but collectively, in the same way that a feast to which all contribute is better than one supplied at one man’s expense. […] There is this to …

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There is this to be said for the many. Each of them by himself may not be of good quality; but when they all come together it is possible that they may surpass—collectively and as a body, although not individually—the quality of the few best. […]
Provided the mass of the people is not too slave-like, each individual will indeed be a worse judge than the experts, but collectively they will be better, or at any rate no worse.”

Rounded corners are often a designers’ holy grail. They seem to provide a concrete user experience and a feeling of smoothness in navigation, while they are being selected recently for more and more web 2.0 designs. Well, I’m not a designer, but need forced me to explore and implement some rounded magic. There exists a lot of available techniques, …

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