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Re:Ask HN: What do you think is the next Technology worth ma... by coderdude on Thursday December 31, 2009 @09:28AM (#1024306)
A couple things off the top of my head: -Web apps geared towards the emerging thin-OS netbook market

-I think Android apps will kick off in a much bigger way this year with more people getting their hands on phones supporting the OS. It's still early enough to get into IMO.

-On this page Veera suggested the Semantic Web, and while I have big hopes for the Semantic Web (I should, I blog[ged] about it), it's just not going to mature into what I think you're looking for in the amount of time you're looking for.

-Tichy suggested Data Mining, which I'm getting very into as of late, so maybe I'm not in the best position to give an impartial opinion but I think that will be taking off more. :)

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think is the next Technology worth ma... by maxklein on Thursday December 31, 2009 @11:29AM (#1024475)
There is no evidence at all that an alternative OS is going to hit off in any significant way. Netbooks are popular cos they run Windows XP. I expect it to stay that way.

Android is a gamble.

Data Mining will make a lot of money for the person who can explain his data mining app in one sentence without ever using the words data or mining.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think is the next Technology worth ma... by raju on Thursday December 31, 2009 @10:06AM (#1024363)
So what would you recommend be the first step in learning about Data mining? Any resources/books you can suggest?

[I figured since you just got into it ... ]

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think is the next Technology worth ma... by nerme on Thursday December 31, 2009 @12:43PM (#1024596)
Learn some linear algebra. Literally every how'd-they-do-that-technique from OCR to PageRank is based on putting data in to a matrix and extracting some eigenvectors.

I took LA in college, but my professor was no where near as good and on topic in relation to computer algorithms as this guy: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-06Spring-2005/Cours...

Oh, check out R. There are a lot of free papers and example code showing say, how principal component analysis on a dataset of migratory geese can be used to explain so and so, along with generating some pretty pictures.

It's a really nice bit of OSS!

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think is the next Technology worth ma... by vlod on Thursday December 31, 2009 @11:39AM (#1024490)
"Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications" is worth checking out in Borders to get a sense if it's gobbledegook amazon link: http://bit.ly/5JlRz7
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Re:Ask HN: What do you think is the next Technology worth ma... by coderdude on Thursday December 31, 2009 @11:34AM (#1024482)
I may have mislead you. I occasionally refer to information extraction (through nlp) as data mining. It's a bad habit, but data mining just sounds cooler.
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