Hey Joe, You know that WingDings now as a Subversion repository hosted by google code, no? http://code.google.com/p/wing-ding/source/checkout We've been...
Thanks. I hope you've also been feeding your corrections back to O'Reilly. The book (1st ed.) has sigma=10.0 and the online code has sigma=5.0, but sigma=1.0...
Good suggestion, Joe. I just submitted the error in the buildtree function from chapter 7 that I talked about last week. It's interesting how the printed book...
1. Heads up for chapter 8: the online source is different from the source discussed in the text. No structural differences, but several details are ...
Well, I installed it but I was able to apt-get on my ubuntu machine with no other intervention. (I just love apt-get!) Is there something specific you are...
Just for fun I uploaded a few shots of the group I've taken over the last few months. Check out the photos area on in WingDings Yahoo groups. Now, if anyone...
The WingDings Study Group (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wingding) continues our coverage of "Programming Collective Intelligence" by Toby Segaran. The...
Thanks for the opportunity to lead a discussion on this interesting material. FWIW, here are the cost functions I wrote for optimizing the k in kNN as well as...
I stumbled upon a cool link today to a boat load of programming books available for free online: http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/programming.php Also a cool...
Does anyone have an unused copy of "Java Generics and Collections" by Naftalin and Wadler? It's not available online via Safari Books (via spl.org). On May 12,...
Weird! Maybe I used the wrong search terms. Thanks. On May 13, 2009, at 10:46 am, Eric Jain wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:38, Jason Aaron Osgood...
The WingDings Study Group (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wingding) continues our coverage of "Programming Collective Intelligence" by Toby Segaran. The...
Rich Hickey speaks on Clojure's features and implementation: http://www.infoq.com/interviews/hickey-clojure His brief discussion of Metadata is rather...
Forget what I said about Clojure Metadata. Wading deeper into the video, it sounds a little lame. Multimethods and Clojure's dispatch, however, that sounds...
Just so I don't forget. Here's the schedule for the last 3 chapters of Collective Intelligence. June 9: Chapter 10: Finding Independent Features (Daniel) ...
This article from Wired Magazine, http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/17-06/nep_googlenomics?currentPage=all, is an interesting read in light...
The WingDings Study Group (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wingding) continues our coverage of "Programming Collective Intelligence" by Toby Segaran. The...