Beryl, Oh yeah!

After much struggling with my ubuntu, I got Beryl finally on my laptop.
Getting it work with ATI was always a problem (for me) until this guide.


Incidentally, this is just a few days from the Vista launch. Who cares about Vista anymore?

Multibabel

Ever wondered what happened when a message is converted from one language to another and so on and finally back to the source language?

Try: http://www.tashian.com/multibabel

Even a simple sentence, I am fine, gets distorted as:

They are much bond.
They are much plugging.
They are covering much.

Uses BabelFish underneath, I wouldn't be surprised if Google or any other MT system also shows similar output.

Interesting ML notes

Machine Leaning. Where are we heading? Tom Mitchell says it all - machine learning != statistics.

How to write a machine learning paper?
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/icml2k/craft.html

Back from IJCAI

I spent much of the fall break attending IJCAI 2007 and ICON 2007. IJCAI had a record attendance of 1500 plus participants.