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  • May
  • 28
  • 2008

Six Degrees of Wikipedia

Which article is the closest (in number of links) to all the others? Find shortest paths between wikipedia articles.

150GB of XML (after it's uncompressed) is far too much data to run any sort of analysis over. It also contains a pile of useless information, for example I didn't care about the content of the articles, only which other articles…

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  • May
  • 23
  • 2008

Cubit: Approximate Matching for Peer-to-Peer Overlays

Cubit is a system that provides fully decentralized approximate keyword search capabilities to Azureus as a standard plugin.

Cubit creates alongside BitTorrent a lightweight peer-to-peer network designed from the ground up to enable rapid and accurate approximate searches. It performs the searches without relying on any centralized components, and therefore is…

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  • May
  • 04
  • 2008

The “Hello World” Program, in 366 Programming Languages!

“Hello World” is the traditional first program you write when learning a new language, first appearing in K&R’s “The C Programming Language” book in 1978. Since then it has been implemented in almost every programming language on the planet. This collection has it in 366 coding languages (even LOLCode!) and 58 human ones! Is your favourite here?

Hello World in BIT. No comments possible. LINENUMBERZEROCODEPRINTZEROGOTOONELINENUMBERONECODEPRINTONEGOTOONEZEROLINENUMBE RONEZEROCODEPRINTZEROGOTOONEONELINENUMBERONEONECODEPRINTZEROGOTOONEZEROZEROLINE…

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  • Mar
  • 31
  • 2008

More data usually beats better algorithms

Interesting article

The same principle also holds true for another area of great success for Google: the AdWords keyword auction model. Overture had previously proved that the model of having advertisers bid for keywords could work. Overture ranked advertisers for a…

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