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Re:TREC Knowledge Base Acceleration on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @06:46PM (#8665233)
The papers from 2013 are available on the TREC notebook page http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec22/trec2013.html . This contains all of the TREC tracks (i.e., microblog and crowdsourcing).

You can find other years here http://trec.nist.gov/proceedings/proceedings.html

Re:Facebook Removing Option To Be Unsearchable By Name on Thursday October 10, 2013 @05:49PM (#6530260)
You can always deactivate your account and only enable it when you need to use it.
Re:Free 2 day Berkeley "big data" class this week on Sunday August 19, 2012 @06:18PM (#4405452)
The classes will be live streamed. I don't think there are any more "free" seats left.
Wat?

"Engineering department taught by non-engineers" You mean because CISE profs don't take the FE/PE? Is it because they haven't taken the order of the engineer oath? What makes one an engineer?

According to the proposal "Roughly half of the faculty will be offered the opportunity to move to ECE, BME or ISE."

The dean also stated several times and faculty must be accepted into this different dept. So it is not clear who which faculty will be allowed to continue research.

Re:Social Graph API - Google Code on Sunday August 28, 2011 @09:33PM (#2935544)
Has anybody tried out the "How are your sites connected?" demo? It connected several 'twitter' sites hosted on app-engine. Such as:

http://liuhui0803.appspot.com/ http://jasonfose.appspot.com/ http://jay98888.appspot.com/

ABC News has been saying these protest started peacefully and then turned violent by other groups.
Re:What technologies are under your site on Saturday July 09, 2011 @11:29PM (#2746952)
fyi, If you click on the kid on the bottom right corner of http://underthesite.com/ he blinks.
Re:US scientists find potentially habitable planet near Earth on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @01:49PM (#1764972)
So centripetal force is independent from planetary gravitational force...
Re:US scientists find potentially habitable planet near Earth on Thursday September 30, 2010 @08:39AM (#1743061)
"The planet is tidally locked to the star, meaning that one side is always facing the star "

How is the gravity about the same as earths if the planet does not spin, or is the planet spinning at the same rate that it is revolving around it's star, like the moon. So I guess gravity does not just come from the centripetal force. Are there any other forces that contribute to planetary gravity? If not the planetary year should be very small.

...rambling

I hope that they get a handsome reward (in $$) from the university for that.
Re:Does a messy desk imply that you are a working hard? on Friday March 19, 2010 @02:57AM (#1203565)
Hmm interesting...

Does a messy desk imply that you are a working hard?

I am a graduate student; I have the messiest desk in our lab. By messy, highlighted research papers, open text books, and scratch sheets of paper sprawled out across my cubicle. As opposed to the banana peels and empty soda bottles. Is the sight of such clutter a sign of a hard worker (positive) or a lazy scatter brained student (negative)?

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