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christangrant··on TREC Knowledge Base Acceleration
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

christangrant··on Facebook Removing Option To Be Unsearchable By Name
You can always deactivate your account and only enable it when you need to use it.
christangrant··on Free 2 day Berkeley "big data" class this week
The classes will be live streamed. I don't think there are any more "free" seats left.
christangrant··on University of Florida shutting down research in Computer Science department
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?

christangrant··on University of Florida shutting down research in Computer Science department
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.

christangrant··on Social Graph API - Google Code
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/

christangrant··on Ugly BBC Interview Touches on Deeper Issues in London Riots
ABC News has been saying these protest started peacefully and then turned violent by other groups.
christangrant··on What technologies are under your site
fyi, If you click on the kid on the bottom right corner of http://underthesite.com/ he blinks.
christangrant··on US scientists find potentially habitable planet near Earth
So centripetal force is independent from planetary gravitational force...
christangrant··on US scientists find potentially habitable planet near Earth
"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

christangrant··on How Universities Work, or: What I Wish I’d Known As a Freshman
I hope that they get a handsome reward (in $$) from the university for that.
christangrant··on Does a messy desk imply that you are a working hard?
Hmm interesting...