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Regular Expression Checker

Posted by admin on September 24th, 2007

function checkRegEx() { var myoutput = document.getElementById(“outout”); var expression = document.getElementById(“regex”).value; var data = document.getElementById(“data”).value; var matches = data.match( expression, “gi” ); if( !matches ) { myoutput.innerHTML = “No Matches found”; } else { var tmp = “”; for( i=0; i < matches.length; i++ ){ tmp += i + ” ” + matches[i] + ” [...]

Days of the Week

Posted by admin on August 24th, 2007

Years ago I was introduced to a young autistic man while my sister was working at a camp for ‘adult children’.  Steven was polite and well spoken among his peers, but had few real friends.   He also had a savant-like gift for dates.  If Steven were asked, “What day of the week was it on [...]

Multipul Experts

Posted by admin on July 3rd, 2007

There exists a model of using several ‘experts’ or classifiers in order to increase the relevancy of a result. In the fish example from Duda, Hart, Stork, a group of experts are asked to determine if a fish is diseased. 9 of them say it’s not, but one disagrees. How do you ask a computer [...]

Semantics IV: Applications

Posted by admin on June 17th, 2007

Web companies – ad revenue based media companies in particular – have amassed great amounts of data on their users. However, they’re data rich and problem poor. Access and error logs are everywhere, but generally they’re not mined for anything more than simple metrics. I’ve used several log analyzers and web trend trackers like HBX [...]

Semantics II: Advertising

Posted by admin on June 8th, 2007

This is part two of a multi-part series. Part one can be found here. Online advertising is a multi-billion dollar business. Google has become one of the worlds most recognized brands by selling ads on its search result pages and putting context ads on websites. Yahoo and Microsoft are working hard, and spending billions to [...]