Clearest Introductions to Information Theory
I've previously written notes about an information theory betting "paradox" and Kelly's optimal betting fraction.Information theory formalized the duality between information…
Hallmark Fights Back
A few years ago many online greeting companies popped up leaving the traditional greeting card retailers feeling a bit empty,…
More problems for Googlemail
Back on February 24th 2009, there was a major outage of Google’s on-line mail service, googlemail, or gmail as it…
People, Process & Politics: Data Governance
For those of us in high tech, it’s easy to fall into the trap of concentrating too hard on the…
Playing With Wolfram Alpha
Woo hoo, I have preview access to Wolfram Alpha! I’ve only had a short time to play with it, but…
Vintage Video High Tech India – 1989
This Internet Chronicles vintage video hosted at the Internet Archive covers software development in India, including a focus offshore development.…
Decision Trees
Machine learning is about automatically finding patterns in data. In trading systems we are interested in finding all the patterns…
What’s an SaaS vendor to do?
SaaS vendors who also sell on-premises versions have a tricky little problem, Claudia Imhoff says. How do they sell both…
Up-and-Coming Web Pro Needed at Social Media Today
You already spend all your time and energy on social media and web technology--why not get paid for it?Social Media…
Got Hate Tweets?
I had the novel experience today of discovering that someone set up a Twitter account for the sole purpose of…
