Notes

I have been running into some problems with a feed generator I am using (yes, it is the one in WordPress MU, long story). However I found a useful tool, an on-line feed validator for Atom and RSS.

Need one? Check Eclipse.

Ben Shneiderman is visiting UIUC today. I am sitting at his talk “The Thrill of Discovery” at room 1040 NCSA. If you miss this one he will be at 126 GSLIS this afternoon at 3pm given another talk Accelerating Discovery and Innovation: Designing Creativity Support Tools". His opening today: This talk will start by reviewing the growing commercial success stories such as www.spotfire.com, www.smartmoney.com/marketmap and www.hivegroup.com. Then it will cover recent research progress for visual exploration of large time series data applied to financial, Ebay auction, and genomic data (www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/timesearcher). ...

The first generations of MacBook Pros tend to run too hot because the low rpm set by default. The new ones have doubled the rpm speed. If you have a first generation on and want to boost the fans a bit to make it run a little cooler, you may find two tool apps to increase the fan speed here.

Torsten Horthorn maintains a page with a list of packages for machine learning and statistical learning in R.