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Today while I was taking the machine learning course in Coursera, I was thinking what could the applications of machine learning could be and then saw this article and the relevance of machine learning.

I've been using regular expressions in Notepad++ for doing this kind of things. This is awesome and would save a lot of time.

I installed CM 7.1 for my Vibrant phone quite easily following the instructions, but it lacked two features which were very important to me. One was taking calls through wired headphone. My stock vibrant software worked quite well for taking calls through headphone but CM didn't work at all. There were bug reports raised for this issue but it was not fixed. Another small feature I missed badly was the lack of recently added playlist which I use to listen to songs which are new without searching or making a playlist of them. This playlist was available on stock player but was not working correctly. I hoped to wait for these issues to be fixed, but I came to know that Samsung Vibrant will not be supported by CM because of a 911 issue. So I had to go back to stock Samsung version with less battery life and crapware.

Google Docs is differentiating itself from MS office fast. This is another feather in the cap

I just observed that for blogs like http://somespam.blogspot.com, it allows you to block somesmap.blogspot.com alone, not the whole blogspot domain. It is the same for wordpress also.

The article talks that Germany is able to export even after giving full wages in the workers. How is it that their products are competitive for exports even after paying good salaries compared to China or India?

The article talks that Germany is able to export even after giving full wages in the workers. How is it possible?

"Apple also allegedly told Sony that the app couldn't access content purchased on other Sony Reader devices, which is where most of the outrage was focused" - I think this is a big problem. If I have bought the book from amazon I should be able to read it everywhere isn't it?

I love it. People who never had a chance to visit those museums can now see them

But it is evolution. isn't it and there be better software for all of us.

Does scala have that many third party libraries ala java ? Because these days for web application most of us use Java with Spring or apache commons.

In India for example, I think everyone pays a bribe to get a passport. If we don't, then passport will be stuck somewhere for months and months without coming out. Even for knowing why it is not getting processed, you have to pay bribe. So finally, everyone has stopped questioning and started giving money to agents to get the things done.

The problem is no one is responsible if the citizen is not getting the promised services. We cannot see the status about why it is pending online, we don't know whom to contact online, no helpdesks. You just have to go to the office and wait and wait for turn only to be turned away without even getting a chance to speak.

If one person is made responsible for citizen satisfaction for services and he is like the manager in the office whose compensation is dependent on the rating the citizen gives for the services, then I think this will change.

How to make government officials answerable to the people? This is difficult, because a government is voted for a period of 5 yrs into power and they have 5 yrs to loot without doing anything and then bribe their way into power again. If this vicious cycle can be broken by clear communication about the government performance, so clear that people can't ignore, then they may vote for another government which is not much better than this. But by consistently projecting these metrics about corruption and government performance, we might give a chance for some party to fight on the plank of eliminating corruption.

Long answer.. hopefully there is some juice in it.

Though it is a good initiative, it is not effective yet. In the site the stories are not associated with the name and also there are no proofs. So in a way all the reports are toned down to just say that I had to pay a bribe but not who is taking the bribe. If it has that detail, then that official will be shamed and there is a possibility that corruption can be reduced faster.

But the site's aim is to gauge the amount of corruption and try for systemic changes to eliminate it - I would take even that compared to nothing. So all the best ipaidabribe

Liked the interviews about how every person discovered their muse and turned it into a successful business.

I am also trying to develop one app on android. I will take this challenge too. Great Idea

Thanks for suggesting the JSONView and XML Tree. The fact that chrome was not dislaying xml was bugging me.

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I don't know if I am a geek exactly, but by experience I can vouch for it and the reason is exactly that I will tell only time to make the feature work, without estimating for the polishing and testing.