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I realize this is an old thread, but we had a couple 8080s at home. I liked the Corona Portable 8080, it had a handle for carrying it 40 lbs bulk around. The green screen was maybe 8 inches diagonal.
I believe the authors apply a monotonic growth modifier to the original logistic equation to represent a basic but continual increase in knowledge now that the peak ingestion of knowledge seems to have occurred. I wouldn't be surprised if this int...
Very interesting. I'm not clear as to why Dr. Chi is assuming the growth of K (encyclopedic knowledge) is monotonic. Is he suggesting that the apparent limit K(t) that the initial exponential growth of wikipedia contributions hits is evidence of t...
There's an interesting post about the community dynamics of Wikipedia on the PARC - Augmented Social Cognition site with several interesting ideas about Wikipedia and the maturation of a website community. This post concludes a four part series by...
There's an interesting post about the community dynamics of Wikipedia on the PARC - Augmented Social Cognition site with several interesting ideas about Wikipedia and the maturation of a website community. This post concludes a four part series by...
I've also noticed some limited perceptions of the role of a developer in Hawaii craigslist posts. I wonder if it has to do with business culture in the islands. Of course, Craigslist business propositions tend to be a bit eccentric, but looking ov...
I'd like to discuss EC2, but I won't be in the area this month...
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- Occupation:
- Consultant, Database Developer, Software Developer, Other
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- UC Berkeley
- Areas of Interest (Robotics, Software Architecture, Green Energy, Web 2.0, etc.):
- Coworking, machine learning, datamining & visualization, crowdsourcing, parallelization (Python and EC2, GoogleAppEngine), Google's Android, Linux, open source, tech in emerging nations...
- Software Language Proficiencies / Interests:
- C, Javascript, Python, SQL, XML, Other
- About Me:
- Currently a software engineer with a young, innovative group in UC Berkeley's Astronomy department. My projects with this group have ranged from designing and developing several parallelized, multi-architecture data-mining / reduction pipelines; to developing a real-time, parallelized time-series classification and machine learning software suite which operates on dozens of cores and automatically identifies time critical science. I'm also beginning to port these algorithms to a Hadoop map-reduce architecture, making use of our group's Yahoo and Amazon EC2 cloud resources.
Current and future projects/interests with the Berkeley group include:
- Crowd sourcing of science identification to the public
- Reinforced machine learning and science classification using multiple node robotic telescope networks, and the economics of such multi-node networks.
- Data exploration and visualization of metadata and complex datasets.
- Using Python Mayavi (for 3D), jQuery flot, ...
I've telecommuted to Berkeley, from Oahu on generally a bi-monthly basis for the past couple years. For this reason, Hawaii "coworking" has always been an interest of mine, although a couple years ago I had given up on there being rich coworking community in Oahu (maybe this will change?). Prior to Berkeley I spent a couple years programmin at an observatory in Hilo, HI.
Some side projects and interests:
- Google App Engine
- Currently exploring ideas pertaining to RSS/feed aggregation and filtering (i.e.: Twitter, del.icio.us, ...)
- Interested in exploring simple crowd sourcing applications for science or other crowd minded tasks
- Offloading Python based, computational tasks which are optimal for GAE's {key:value} architectures.
- Hacking tools for Google's Android OS.
- Twitter Username
- d_starr
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Community dynamics at Wikipedia: research done by the PARC - Augmented Social Cognition group
There's an interesting post about the community dynamics of Wikipedia on the PARC - Augmented Social Cognition site with several interesting ideas about Wikipedia and the maturation of a website community. This post concludes a four part series by summarizing work presented in a to-be-published paper by Bongwon Suh, Gregorio Converti… Continue
Posted on October 23, 2009 at 1:29pm — 2 Comments
Comment Wall (4 comments)
- At 12:56pm on October 25, 2009,
Lynn Rasmussen said…
- Thanks, Dan! We're in the middle of designing the icanology site -- It was great to get lists of mashups that people are doing all in one place.
- At 4:06pm on June 9, 2009,
Lynn Rasmussen said…
- Yes, Dan. Icanology is a project and a half. Before icanology.com, it was lynnsbigidea.com
Are you related to Maui's Hugh/Jennifer/Lisa Starr or Jonathan Starr?
Keep in touch!
- At 5:07am on February 18, 2009,
Nate Sanders said… - Dan,
Good to meet you at the LUG meeting on Tuesday night. Are there any openings in your Astronomy group at Berkeley? I'd definitely be interested in scientific programming again and I have a pretty strong resume for it (MS in Computer Vision).
- At 3:48pm on February 17, 2009,
Mika Leuck said… - E komo mai Dan! We look forward to seeing you tonight at the Linux users group meeting. Truman Leung sometimes coordinates coworking groups in Honolulu.
The FAQ is a good place to learn about the site. We hope you find TechHui useful and invite others. Happy coding!
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