“Interesting” science promotion

Italian national TV apparently has special ideas as to how to make formulas more appealing to the general public:

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Quote of the day

The phenomenon “unintended acceleration” is a technical problem that only manifests itself within the jurisdiction of the United States.

Source: vowe.net

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Been shooting again

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Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco

Legion of Honor

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Yahoo! Learning To Rank Challenge

Yahoo! is running a learning to rank challenge. So finally, we can see a fair comparison between all the different approaches to learning to rank.

Download the real world data set and submit your proposal at the Yahoo! Learning to Rank Challenge Site.

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Snow in San Francisco!?!

San Francisco Pillow Fight 2010

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San Francisco Pillow Fight 2010

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Been learning the flashes

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Please stop using my GMail address

In the aftermath of the buzz nightmare, I am about to delete my google account(s). So please delete my @gmail.com address from your address book and Jabber contact lists. Thanks.

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MLOSS 2010 – ICML Workshop just accepted

We are glad to announce that our MLOSS 2010 workshop at this years ICML conference has been accepted! We are therefore happily accepting software submissions. The deadline for the submissions is April 10th, 2010. If accepted, you can present your software to the workshop audience, which is a great opportunity to make your piece of software more known to the machine learning community. Like last time, we will use mloss.org for managing the submissions. You basically just have to register your project with mloss.org and add the tag icml2010 to it. For more information, have a look at the workshop page.

Source: MLOSS.org blog

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