Monthly Archives: January 2010

The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa’s City of Gold by Frank T. Kryza | LibraryThing

I mentioned a little over a year ago that I’m now keeping track of what I read (using LibraryThing). I enter the book, the date I finished it, and a rating out of five stars, but I’ve been thinking for … Continue reading

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Some notes on Map Kibera mapping – Mikel Maron

It occurs to me that I’ve hardly mentioned OpenStreetMap on this blog, despite that it’s often an obsession of mine, as people who’ve met me in person would quickly confirm. As the Wikipedia of maps (no other explanation works nearly … Continue reading

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The Loudness Wars (and leaf blowers)

In an earlier post complaining about excessive noise I briefly mentioned the trends within music. The Loudness Wars: Why Music Sounds Worse : NPR has more interesting details on this include some real stats (sadly using only the top song … Continue reading

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Comparing NLP APIs for Entity Extraction

Update: a number have people have pointed out some small errors and some additional APIs that I should look at. See my half-hearted followup: Entity Extraction APIs, once again. As part of a project I’m working on (more on that … Continue reading

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