Weighted Slope One in Haskell: collaborative filtering in 29 lines of code
Posted in haskell on August 27th, 2007 5 Comments »
Posted in haskell on August 27th, 2007 5 Comments »
Posted in haskell on August 23rd, 2007 2 Comments »
A few days ago, I wrote a Haskell library for building and working with suffix trees. It builds a suffix tree lazily, so even though its performance is O(n log n) on large input strings, it often has linear performance for many applications.
The implementation is simple and easy to read; the API is well-documented and [...]
Posted in web on August 11th, 2007 5 Comments »
I’ve had an account on del.icio.us for several years, but I only started using it heavily perhaps a year ago. While it’s a wonderful site in many respects, I’ve been surprised and disappointed by what’s happened since Yahoo acquired the company: nothing at all.
Clearly, Yahoo has had no idea what to do with their acquisition: [...]
Posted in slice-o-life on August 8th, 2007 2 Comments »
Irish television hasn’t changed much since I left the country twelve years ago. The main national broadcaster, RTÉ, mainly serves up imported American and British shows, with locally originated fare dominated by vast quantities of sports coverage, a few soaps and talk shows, and the occasional documentary. It’s a tepid, uninspiring mix.
Except for one show, [...]