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Amazon does the same thing with Mechanical Turk Qualification Tests (Only has A-Z sorting):

http://www.mturk.com/mturk/findquals?requestable=false&e...

also see http://www.snpedia.com

"SNPedia is based on a wiki model, in order to foster communication about genetic variation and to allow interested community members to help it evolve to become ever more relevant. We anticipate that as the cost of genotyping (and especially of fully determining your own genomic sequence) continues to drop, we'll all want to know more - a lot more - about the meaning of these DNA variations. And SNPedia will be here to help."

Comparing travelocity and kayak is interesting, but the best flight scheduling interface is ITA's demo app (seems to be down right now):

http://matrix.itasoftware.com/

It gives a color coded matrix of flights, and all the info is captured in one screen. I think orbitz and others use their optimizer as a backend.

1) yes. 2) no. 3) no. ...there is a minimum guaranteed performance level for each instance type. for small instances (1 core), each user gets a minimum of 1/N of the system resources. If you fire up an extra-large instance, you essentially get the whole box to yourself, including I/O.

see: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/2008-02-01/Develope...

summize.com is also in the DC area...

Juice Analytics: www.juiceanalytics.com

Looking for python/django developers, UI types, db developers, and machine learning people...

A bunch of APIs, data, and examples here:

http://del.icio.us/pskomoroch/gis

Google Trends added functionality this week for CSV output of trends data. The code in the post is a quick hack that handles authentication and data munging, allowing you to query google trends directly from python. Should help people get started building some neat trends mashups.

that is an elegant library... hadn't seen it before, thanks.

Here was my plan: http://www.datawrangling.com/hidden-video-courses-in-math-sc...

Watched videos on the archos while doing cardio at the gym...Add regular weightlifting where the weight increases over time (just find a program you like from one of the usual muscle mags from the newstands)... and be sure to do cardio with alternating sprints/jogs along with watching your diet. If you are new to lifting, or haven't much before then take it slow and make sure you use good form to avoid injury.

Thanks, I still have 25+ pounds to go as well :) I think a lot of people fall into the same vicious work/code/sleep or school/code/sleep cycle, especially with startups.

these press releases really need to start linking to the papers..

full paper here:

http://www.iovs.org/cgi/content/abstract/49/3/1142

It was a great article, but he hasn't really been anonymous in the Netflix Prize world:

http://www.netflixprize.com/community/viewtopic.php?pid=6090...

Anyway, congrats Gavin...

Good point, some of these datasets are open/free...others are not. If anyone is going to use a "seemingly-free" data set in open source code, try to get permission under the appropriate license. There is a good overview of the difficulties here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Data