December 7, 2011
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According to my evaluation setup and personal experience, the best open source solution currently available on the market is the boilerpipe library. If we treat precision with an equal amount of importance as recall (reflected in the F1 score) and take into account the performance consistency across both domains, then boilerpipe performs best. Performance aside, its codebase is seems to be quite stable and it works really fast.
(Full Story: Evaluating Text Extraction Algorithms)
September 29, 2011
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OPEN, a free tool used by teachers to create digital lessons for their own students. Instead of learning content in the classroom, students will take lessons created by their own teacher at home and spend the class period working on homework-style problems.
(Full Story: OPEN – a tool for teachers to create and share lessons with their studenrs)
September 29, 2011
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The largest exchange, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Euronext, is run on a Linux system that can generate 1,500,000 quotes and process 250,000 orders every second, offering acknowledgments of each transaction within two milliseconds.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is now the dominant Linux distribution among exchanges, Lameter said. Red Hat counts among its customers the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, New York Mercantile Exchange, Frankfurt Stock Exchange, Eurex derivative exchange and Philippine Stock Exchange.
(Full Story: How Linux mastered Wall Street | ITworld)
August 31, 2011
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Summary: Once the exclusive domain of academics and corporations with large research budgets, intelligent applications that learn from data and user input are becoming more common. The need for machine-learning techniques like clustering, collaborative filtering, and categorization has never been greater, be it for finding commonalities among large groups of people or automatically tagging large volumes of Web content. The Apache Mahout project aims to make building intelligent applications easier and faster. Mahout co-founder Grant Ingersoll introduces the basic concepts of machine learning and then demonstrates how to use Mahout to cluster documents, make recommendations, and organize content.
(Full Story: Introducing Apache Mahout – calable, commercial-friendly machine learning for building intelligent applications)
August 17, 2011
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OPEN, a free tool used by teachers to create digital lessons for their own students. Instead of learning content in the classroom, students will take lessons created by their own teacher at home and spend the class period working on homework-style problems.
(Full Story: OPEN – a tool for teachers to create and share lessons with their studenrs)
August 17, 2011
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The largest exchange, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Euronext, is run on a Linux system that can generate 1,500,000 quotes and process 250,000 orders every second, offering acknowledgments of each transaction within two milliseconds.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is now the dominant Linux distribution among exchanges, Lameter said. Red Hat counts among its customers the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, New York Mercantile Exchange, Frankfurt Stock Exchange, Eurex derivative exchange and Philippine Stock Exchange.
(Full Story: How Linux mastered Wall Street | ITworld)
July 12, 2011
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Google Refine is a power tool for working with messy data, cleaning it up, transforming it from one format into another, extending it with web services, and linking it to databases like Freebase.
(Full Story: google-refine – Google Refine, a power tool for working with messy data (formerly Freebase Gridworks) – Google Project Hosting)
May 25, 2011
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Open, a free tool used by teachers to create digital lessons for their own students. Instead of learning content in the classroom, students will take lessons created by their own teacher at home and spend the class period working on homework-style problems
(Full Story: Open – A tool for teachers to create and share lessons with their students.)
May 17, 2011
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Lead the way with our gradebook, lesson planner, attendance, reporting and calendar. For teachers, parents and students.
(Full Story: LearnBoost – opensource gradebook, lesson planner, etc)
April 21, 2011
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Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens, talking cloud computing & opensource
(Full Story: Forbes’ video interview w/ Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens)
