Archive for May, 2006

May 30th, 2006

Sold

The GTI is sold. It’s the end of a chapter. I’ll miss it.

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May 30th, 2006

1942.. err, 2006

I’ve been meaning to write this story for couple weeks, but I never got around to it. Here goes: On my drive back home from Bloomington I had to pass through the mountains. Roughly 10 miles before entering the Rockies a blue R32 with darkly tinted windows pulls up next to me. For those you [...]

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May 5th, 2006

No JOINs

I’ve removed every use of the JOIN function when making queries to my database which powers my photoGallery after reading Cal Henderson’s presentation from 2004 on how flickr works. Instead of using JOINs I now use multiple copies of data, and a lot more SELECTs. Performance went up nearly 6 fold and the resources used [...]

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May 4th, 2006

Statistical machine translation live

How google does translation for Chinese and Arabic.

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May 4th, 2006

Superman Returns

Superman Returns Trailer

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May 4th, 2006

How to hold your breath for nine minutes

How to hold your breath for nine minutes?

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May 4th, 2006

Google Really Is Evil

Google Really Is Evil – I’m doing the quest too and I thought the EXACT same thing when it started.

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