Newegg trial: Crypto legend takes the stand, goes for knockout patent punch | Ars Technica
“We’ve heard a good bit in this courtroom about public key encryption,” said Albright. “Are you familiar with that? “Yes, I am,” said Diffie, in what surely qualified as the biggest understatement of the trial. “And how is it that you’re familiar with public key encryption?” “I invented it.”
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SAMOA, an open source platform for mining big data streams
Yahoo!’s streaming machine learning platform, built on Storm, implementing:
As a library, SAMOA contains state-of-the-art implementations of algorithms for distributed machine learning on streams. The first alpha release allows classification and clustering. For classification, we implemented a Vertical Hoeffding Tree (VHT), a distributed streaming version of decision trees tailored for sparse data (e.g., text). For clustering, we included a distributed algorithm based on CluStream. The library also includes meta-algorithms such as bagging.
(tags: storm streaming big-data realtime samoa yahoo machine-learning ml decision-trees clustering bagging classification)
Spam-Friendly Registrar ‘Dynamic Dolphin’ Shuttered
yay (via Tony Finch)
(tags: dynamic-dolphin registrars dns spam scott-richter anti-spam brian-krebs)
Photographer wins $1.2 million from companies that took pictures off Twitter | Reuters
The jury found that Agence France-Presse and Getty Images willfully violated the Copyright Act when they used photos Daniel Morel took in his native Haiti after the 2010 earthquake that killed more than 250,000 people, Morel’s lawyer, Joseph Baio, said
(tags: copyright twitter facebook social-media via:niall-harbison law getty-images afp daniel-morel haiti photography)