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- Installing Ubuntu on the OLPC XO-1: "My XO went from being a novelty toy to a useful tool" http://locut.us/blog/2008/05/26/installing-ubunto-on-olpc-xo/ 2 comments
- Netflix Prize - is RMSE a good measurement? No. http://locut.us/blog/2007/12/17/netflix-prize-is-rmse-a-good-measurement/ 3 comments
- Installing Ubuntu on the OLPC XO-1: "My XO went from being a novelty toy to a useful tool" http://locut.us/blog/2008/05/26/installing-ubunto-on-olpc-xo/ 23 comments programming
- An interesting approach to spam-proofing an anonymous messaging system on Freenet http://locut.us/blog/2008/05/11/fms-spam-proof-anonymous-message-boards-on-freenet/ 38 comments programming
- Clinton will lose because she chose incompetent people to run her campaign http://locut.us/blog/2008/05/10/incompentence-of-clintons-campaign/ 8 comments politics
- Rediscovering Standard ML http://locut.us/blog/2008/04/24/rediscovering-standard-ml/ 3 comments programming
- Clinton adopts "scorched earth" policy - if she can't be the democratic president, nobody can http://locut.us/blog/2008/03/13/clinton-adopts-scorched-earth-policy/ 2 comments reddit.com
- A contrarian view: Scala is not yet ready for production use http://locut.us/blog/2007/12/25/the-trouble-with-scala/ 32 comments programming
- Scala: The best of both Ruby and Java http://locut.us/blog/2007/12/18/scala-the-best-of-both-ruby-and-java/ 5 comments programming
- Netflix Prize: What does "Root Mean Squared Error" mean in the real world? "Not much!" suggests this analysis. http://locut.us/blog/2007/12/17/netflix-prize-is-rmse-a-good-measurement/ 19 comments programming
- The Google Web Toolkit's API makes you wonder whether they are so busy asking potential employees questions like “How many gas stations would you say there are in the United States?” that they neglected to verify that they could engineer software. http://locut.us/blog/2007/09/20/gwts-api-not-googles-finest-moment/ 7 comments reddit.com