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LazyWeb: fight laziness! Automate categorization of blog stuff!

Posted by Mike Sugarbaker at 2:39 am on 4/25/2003

Hey, LazyWeb! There’s a lot of good ideas in here. If bloggers won’t categorize their posts, or otherwise add metadata aggressively enough, let’s make software that does it for them! This guy says the kind of Bayesian math that works so well on spam won’t work very well for this… but even a 70% success rate would help. Given the limited usefulness of sorting all the different stuff we put in our blogs by time only, we need more - but rich connections between concepts are not the kind of thing that a computer can generate for you. It doesn’t happen enough because it’s time-consuming, human work. Maybe this will take some combination of Bayesian wackiness and peer-to-peer wackiness (that link’s hella wacky but seems promising).

I apologize for the lower-than-usual coherency of this post, especially for my less technical readers. But then, maybe this isn’t less coherent than usual. Oy.

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Props to a friend, and just imagine where this could go

Posted by Mike Sugarbaker at 6:00 am on 4/23/2003

“Shukebox is a shared jukebox. It is meant to mediate arguments among the many listeners of one stereo system about which songs to play and which songs to ban. […] It has been successfully deployed in my living room (and is busily playing Abba when I’m not there, and Bran Van 3000 when my girlfriend is at work).”

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Deja vu all over again

Posted by Mike Sugarbaker at 1:44 am on 4/9/2003

I keep having to ask if there’s a Windows analogue of cool-ass new Mac software. How about Hydra?

Note: if I could afford a Mac, you wouldn’t be reading this, so you don’t need to suggest that. Just thought I’d save you some time.

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