Warren Ellis » The Conclusion Of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (Condensed Version) : hahaha, spot on
(tags: bob-dylan bsg funny religion deus-ex-machina warren-ellis via:fp)Easy AI with Python – PyCon 2009 : ‘several basic AI techniques implemented with short, open-source Python code recipes … For each technique, learn the basic operating principle, discuss an approach using Python, and review a worked out-example. We’ll cover database mining using neural nets, automated categorization with a naive Bayesian classifier, solving popular puzzles with depth-first and breath-first [sic] searches, solving more complex puzzles with constraint propagation, and playing a popular game using a probing search strategy.’ video: http://pycon.blip.tv/file/1947373/
(tags: python problem-solving games puzzles ai search constraint-propagation depth-first breadth-first)Amazon Elastic MapReduce : excellent! run Hadoop jobs on EC2, with data hosted on S3. essentially, AWS have integrated a Hadoop dashboard to provide a great web-based and command-line UI
(tags: hadoop mapreduce scalability ec2 s3 aws amazon)Arthur Kade meets Angelina Jolie : best blog ever. Narcissistic meathead ‘actor/model’ type waxes lyrical on how Angelina Jolie is ‘“mother hot”, rather than “stripper hot”’: ‘I would probably rate her an 8.5-9 on my looks scale. I am not that sure that I would even feel the need to come up and initiate a conversation with her if I met her out somewhere.’ ‘I couldn’t really say that she would stick out for me if I saw her at a hot club like 1Oak or Rosebar.’ The entire blog is solid gold idiocy; I’d swear it was fake, but apparently not
(tags: wtf funny arthur-kade blogs narcissism angelina-jolie via:gerry stripper-hot beauty)Google uncloaks once-secret server : GOOG’s servers include built-in 12V batteries (and of course lots of velcro). video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgRWURIxgbU (via wmf)
(tags: via:wmf google hardware servers infrastructure batteries electricity energy data-center efficiency pue)