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Four Pillars: Snowballs

April 28th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Four pillars

I look at every comment made on my blog. I try and find out who the commenter is. If someone links to me, I try and find out who it is and what they’re interested in.
Manual collaborative filtering. It’s not about ego. In fact, I don’t understand why someone would blog if that someone wasn’t [...]

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Exchanging queens: Reducing complexity in IT

April 28th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Four pillars

I love chess. And if there was a particular game that made me start loving it, it was this one:

The game was between Edward Lasker and Sir George Thomas, London (Oct 29, 1912). It went as follows:
1.d4 f5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 e6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.Bxf6 Bxf6 6.e4 fxe4 7.Nxe4 b6 8.Bd3 Bb7 9.Ne5 O-O [...]

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