A Word of Thanks to Thanx Media

As I hope I’ve made abundantly clear in the past, this is not a corporate blog, and I try to…

Daniel Tunkelang
3 Min Read

Is Google destroying the planet?

In Lewis Caroll’s Through the Looking Glass, the White Queen tells Alice that she’s “believed as many as six impossible…

Daniel Tunkelang
2 Min Read

Interview: Dr Graham Williams

I have often talked about how the Graphical User Interface, Rattle for R language makes learning R and building models quite…

Editor SDC
13 Min Read

A demo of Swype, a new innovation in text entry that recently…

A demo of Swype, a new innovation in text entry that recently won a Crunchie award for mobile applications. (via…

JackMason
1 Min Read

If you’re an IR / NLP person looking for work…

I get pinged from time to time by colleagues and recruiters looking to hire IR / NLP people, for everything…

Daniel Tunkelang
2 Min Read

Tips for Launching a Blog or Site Redesign

As many of you may have noticed (I hope) this site has been completely redesigned.  I must say that it…

JacobMorgan
6 Min Read

Manes: let’s get more ‘concrete’ about service orienting

More on the Architecture Formerly Known as SOA: Anne Thomas Manes created quite a kerfuffle across the blogosphere this past…

JoeMcKendrick
1 Min Read

Is online friendship worth less than a piece of meat?

In a brilliant marketing campaign, Burger King is offering a coupon for a free Whopper to anyone who “sacrifices” ten…

Daniel Tunkelang
2 Min Read

Top ten RRReasons R is bad for you ?

R stands for programming language based out of www.r-project.orgR is bad for you because -1) It is slower with bigger…

Editor SDC
4 Min Read

Business Rules Algorithms research from Forrester

Mike Gualtieri published a nice piece on business rules engine algorithms last July that I wanted to point out to…

JamesTaylor
3 Min Read