http://kallander.net/will/blog Random rumblings, rants, and reflections Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:06:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/12/31/a-side-note-about-great-expectations/ http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/12/31/a-side-note-about-great-expectations/#comments Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:06:45 +0000 wkallander http://kallander.net/will/blog/?p=35 Since it had been a while, I figured it might be a nice change to read something completely unrelated to my work or school, to refresh the spirit. Which I think was achieved. The book is typical Dickens in it's esoteric vocabulary, but I tend to like that kind of reading material anyway. I was surprised at how I managed to get through high school and college without reading it though - I believe my curriculum must have substituted another of Dickens' works in its stead.]]> http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/12/31/a-side-note-about-great-expectations/feed/ http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/06/12/rss-feeds-now-up-for-daily-gosho-ftt-and-bdbd/ http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/06/12/rss-feeds-now-up-for-daily-gosho-ftt-and-bdbd/#comments Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:51:05 +0000 wkallander http://kallander.net/will/blog/?p=33 You may or not be aware that the SGI-USA site has, for a long time now, provided the “Daily Wisdom: From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin” perpetual calendar online. It’s a set of daily inspirational quotes taken from the Gosho. I love it, I have the hardcopy that you can buy at the [...]]]> http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/06/12/rss-feeds-now-up-for-daily-gosho-ftt-and-bdbd/feed/ http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/06/05/project-discussion-section-04-june/ http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/06/05/project-discussion-section-04-june/#comments Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:23:59 +0000 wkallander http://kallander.net/will/blog/?p=31 Someone (could not hear the name) talked about using social network analysis in the context of online auctions. Ignoring the complexity of the multiple different type of auctions that he mentioned (english v. dutch, etc), it was interesting to me, since it has elements of covert networks, particularly the game that the banned auctioneers [...]]]> http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/06/05/project-discussion-section-04-june/feed/ http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/06/05/review-of-harvesting-terrorists-information-from-web/ http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/06/05/review-of-harvesting-terrorists-information-from-web/#comments Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:13:14 +0000 wkallander http://kallander.net/will/blog/?p=32 A review of: Memon, N.; Hicks, D.L.; Larsen, H.L., "Harvesting Terrorists Information from Web," Information Visualization, 2007. IV '07. 11th International Conference , vol., no., pp.664-671, 4-6 July 2007]]> http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/06/05/review-of-harvesting-terrorists-information-from-web/feed/ http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/05/28/project-discussion-section-28-may/ http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/05/28/project-discussion-section-28-may/#comments Wed, 28 May 2008 17:50:44 +0000 wkallander http://kallander.net/will/blog/?p=30 Today we talked about Casey’s non-cooperative game model for P2P networks, (using bittorrent as a specific example).  In a non-cooperative context, we talked about incentives to prevent leechers and promote sharing.  MessageReaper has the same need for incentives (the current model is based on past history) that reward current activities (like reputation). We also talked about [...]]]> http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/05/28/project-discussion-section-28-may/feed/ http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/05/23/review-of-exploiting-time-varying-relationships-in-statistical-relational-models/ http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/05/23/review-of-exploiting-time-varying-relationships-in-statistical-relational-models/#comments Sat, 24 May 2008 06:30:56 +0000 wkallander http://kallander.net/will/blog/?p=29 Review of: Sharan, U. and Neville, J. 2007. Exploiting time-varying relationships in statistical relational models. In Proceedings of the 9th WebKDD and 1st SNA-KDD 2007 Workshop on Web Mining and Social Network Analysis (San Jose, California, August 12 - 12, 2007). WebKDD/SNA-KDD '07. ACM, New York, NY, 9-15.]]> http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/05/23/review-of-exploiting-time-varying-relationships-in-statistical-relational-models/feed/ http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/05/22/review-of-the-link-prediction-problem-for-social-networks/ http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/05/22/review-of-the-link-prediction-problem-for-social-networks/#comments Fri, 23 May 2008 00:50:03 +0000 wkallander http://kallander.net/will/blog/?p=27 A review of: Liben-Nowell, D. and Kleinberg, J. 2003. The link prediction problem for social networks. In Proceedings of the Twelfth international Conference on information and Knowledge Management (New Orleans, LA, USA, November 03 - 08, 2003). CIKM '03. ACM, New York, NY, 556-559.]]> http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/05/22/review-of-the-link-prediction-problem-for-social-networks/feed/ http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/05/15/thundarr-dvd-petition/ http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/05/15/thundarr-dvd-petition/#comments Fri, 16 May 2008 02:16:44 +0000 wkallander http://kallander.net/will/blog/?p=25 This totally rocks! A petition to have the old Thundarr the Barbarian cartoon series released on DVD. http://www.petitiononline.com/thundarr/petition.html ]]> http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/05/15/thundarr-dvd-petition/feed/ http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/05/14/project-discussion-section-14-may/ http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/05/14/project-discussion-section-14-may/#comments Thu, 15 May 2008 03:44:53 +0000 wkallander http://kallander.net/will/blog/?p=20 Today we mostly checked in about the status of our projects. Professor Wu did mention that Professor Vemuri (retired from LLNL) is interested in terrorism applications and I might want to write him a note to express interest in that area. We also had a lengthy discussion about privacy (and inference) in social networking. [...]]]> http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/05/14/project-discussion-section-14-may/feed/ http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/05/12/review-of-identity-and-search-in-social-networks/ http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/05/12/review-of-identity-and-search-in-social-networks/#comments Mon, 12 May 2008 23:05:37 +0000 wkallander http://kallander.net/will/blog/?p=24 A review of: Watts, Duncan J.; Dodds, Peter Sheridan; Newman, M. E. J., 2002. "Identity and Search in Social Networks". Science, Volume 296, Issue 5571, pp. 1302-1305.]]> http://kallander.net/will/blog/2008/05/12/review-of-identity-and-search-in-social-networks/feed/