Spam-erican Apparel : ‘LifeSphere currently offers more than 90,000 unique products and is more than likely run by one person in a suburban bungalow in Phoenix. As far as I can gather their process consists of ALPHABETICALLY(!) applying every single image in the Public Domain photography archive to every object Zazzle offers. Amazingly almost everything they make is amazing. From doggy clothes featuring macrophotography of Chex Mix, to “Thanksgiving Shrimp” skateboard decks, LifeSphere proves 90,000 times over that rigorous process-based design yields infallibly fresh results.’ (via Nelson)
(tags: bots clothing design manufacturing zazzle on-demand spam new-aesthetic future)Probabilistic Data Structures for Web Analytics and Data Mining « Highly Scalable Blog : Stream summary, count-min sketches, loglog counting, linear counters. Some nifty algorithms for probabilistic estimation of element frequencies and data-set cardinality (via proggit)
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