The TREC Microblog Track is, for the second year running, using a unique “evaluation as a service” model. I decided I’d invest a little bit of time and create a Go library for those of us who use Go and take part in the track (which I imagine is probably only me).
5th of August, 2014
An alternative to lots of Java
Published in ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, the paper describes the creation of a large-scale collection of events for use in evaluating event detection approaches on Twitter.
29th of October, 2013
CIKM 2013
Users have been complaining about Gnome’s war on features for some time now, and whilst I agree that sometimes it’s better to have a set of sane defaults, I don’t believe that removing as many options as possible is the best approach. The most recent example I can find on this is the new Places menu in Gnome 3.6.
2nd of December, 2012
They fixed this in 3.12
Hadoop is great for dealing with large datasets, however sometimes it struggles with really big datasets. If the number of reducers is quite small then seeing outOfMemoryErrors isn’t all that uncommon. Fixing this can be as simple as increasing the number of reduces available, however that isn’t always an option.
4th of October, 2012
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
One of the things I’ve found myself wanting to do fairly often is make an editable JLabel in Swing. Unfortunately there isn’t a default component for doing this, you have to make your own.
8th of January, 2011
You'd think this would be included by default