Re: [FRIAM] Congratulations on making TIME's Top-Five list !

2011-12-21 Thread Pamela McCorduck
Well done, Steve! On Dec 21, 2011, at 3:08 PM, Victoria Hughes wrote: Simtable Returns to TIME Magazine's Techland for 5 Cool Inventions List First featured on the site in June, SimTable's flagship wildfire training system returns for top-5 honors in the TIME magazines tech blog's

[FRIAM] Free copy of Introduction to Information Retrieval

2011-12-21 Thread Tom Johnson
Worth the price, especially for those in the teaching biz. -tj = http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/information-retrieval-book.html The book aims to provide a modern approach to information retrieval from a computer science perspective. It is

Re: [FRIAM] Free copy of Introduction to Information Retrieval

2011-12-21 Thread Owen Densmore
The NLP (Natural Language Processing) team at Stanford is pretty interesting and quite diverse with folks from many disciplines. They are giving one of the Stanford online classes next quarter, btw. On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Tom Johnson t...@jtjohnson.com wrote: Worth the price,

Re: [FRIAM] Congratulations on making TIME's Top-Five list !

2011-12-21 Thread Miles Parker
Congratulations Steve! That's truly awesome. On Dec 21, 2011, at 2:18 PM, Pamela McCorduck wrote: Well done, Steve! On Dec 21, 2011, at 3:08 PM, Victoria Hughes wrote: Simtable Returns to TIME Magazine's Techland for 5 Cool Inventions List First featured on the site in June,

Re: [FRIAM] Cell Service/Tower/Reception/Repeaters/etc.

2011-12-21 Thread Steve Smith
Just to follow up on this thread for those who care: I finally got around to ordering (and then got around to installing) a Wilson Electronics DB Pro with a directional (Yagi) outdoor receiving antenna and an omnidirectional indoor antenna. It is a dual band transciever, essentially taking

Re: [FRIAM] Cell Service/Tower/Reception/Repeaters/etc.

2011-12-21 Thread Gillian Densmore
Adding to this frustration Santa Fe isn't to hot on allowing cell providers to install new towers. (fwack) I'd have to check a reliable source-it might be possible root a iphone to improve it's signal strength- but glad to here the repeater scenario is somewhat of a improvement. I here good things

Re: [FRIAM] Cell Service/Tower/Reception/Repeaters/etc.

2011-12-21 Thread Victoria Hughes
FYI re TMOBILE: I have just had the latest in a round of totally unsuccessful interactions with T-Mobile. I have a Galaxy S2. I have only had phone service with them for three months: however I've had to deal with constant lousy coverage and unexplained gaps in service, I've replaced the

[FRIAM] indices vs search rewrite for mixed phonetic/pictorgram languages

2011-12-21 Thread Carl Tollander
I was wondering if anyone out there had any insight on how search engines work with mixed phonetic/pictogram queries. If you enter a search in the phonetic alphabet (e.g. jp Hiragana) does it try to convert to the pictogram (e.g. jp Kanji) first and then try matches against a pictogram-based

Re: [FRIAM] Cell Service/Tower/Reception/Repeaters/etc.

2011-12-21 Thread Owen Densmore
And folks thought I was obsessive in my cell phone Odyssey! Buying a cell phone is the most difficult purchase you can make. You have three opposing entities: - The Carrier: Tmo, Vzn, ATT, Sprint ... - The OS: iOS, Android, .. and the others - The Handset mfgr: Samsung, Apple, Moto, ... The mix

Re: [FRIAM] Cell Service/Tower/Reception/Repeaters/etc.

2011-12-21 Thread Victoria Hughes
Well actually I was sorely tempted at the Verizon store today by a small non-smart phone. Charming and insouciente in its naiveté. Dumb and simple? Yep. No touch screen, no google search, no watching YouTube on a telephone... I can do all that easier and faster on my MacBook, which is almost