Archive for May, 2008

When Natural Language Processing Goes Wrong

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Was just cruising through my news updates over on ReadPath where I've got a subscription to the Google EngEdu videos. These are always great ways to get some in depth coverage of a geeky topic. One of the latest ones gave me a quick laugh though. A video on Natural Language ...

Saw my first Tesla Roadster

Monday, May 19th, 2008

Wish I could have gotten some picks, but it was moving pretty quick. I was in San Carlos today to pick up some items and it went tearing down a sidestreet. Can't wait till there are more of them out on the road.

Wow, CNET Networks gets picked up by CBS

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Looks like things will be changing a bit for CNET. They wanted to be a media company. Now they've got a really big media company to let them know how it's done. I'm interested to see what kind of changes come out of this.

Just checked out Powerset

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Can't say that I'm really all that impressed. It wasn't the shockingly better experience that I remember Google was when I first came across it. Some of the searches that I tested out seemed to be slightly better than Google, but I had to use contrived examples that I wouldn't ...

Always check the time

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Found another one of those gotchas when debugging caching with multiple servers. Don't make the assumption that ntpd is working properly and that the time is synchronized on all of the servers. I just spent a whole lot of time to finally discover that somehow a server had its times ...

Configuring distributed caching with EHCache on a server with multiple nics

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

I ran into a small issue yesterday with a tomcat server running hibernate with a distributed ehcache setup for the second tier cache. My server setup currently uses two tomcat servers that are load balanced for serving front end pages along with several other backend servers that do offline processing. ...