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Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco

Posted 09 March 2010 † Markus Weimer § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Yahoo! Learning To Rank Challenge

Yahoo! is running a learning to rank challenge. So finally, we can see a fair comparison between all the different approaches to learning to rank.

Download the real world data set and submit your proposal at the Yahoo! Learning to Rank Challenge Site.

Posted 26 February 2010 † Markus Weimer § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Snow in San Francisco!?!

Posted 24 February 2010 † Markus Weimer § ‡ Comments (0) °

San Francisco Pillow Fight 2010

Posted 15 February 2010 † Markus Weimer § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Been learning the flashes

Posted 14 February 2010 † Markus Weimer § ‡ Comments (0) °

Please stop using my GMail address

In the aftermath of the buzz nightmare, I am about to delete my google account(s). So please delete my @gmail.com address from your address book and Jabber contact lists. Thanks.

Posted 13 February 2010 † Markus Weimer § ‡ Comments (0) °

MLOSS 2010 – ICML Workshop just accepted

We are glad to announce that our MLOSS 2010 workshop at this years ICML conference has been accepted!

We are therefore happily accepting software submissions. The deadline for the submissions is April 10th, 2010. If accepted, you can present your software to the workshop audience, which is a great opportunity to make [...]

Posted 12 February 2010 † Markus Weimer § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

How to avoid “Killed by signal 15″ error when using Netbeans with Subversion

At least if you use Netbeans on the Mac with a reasonably current version of Subversion (e.g. installed through MacPorts), you may have faced the following situation: After each action that involves a ssh link, you get a Dialog box stating “Killed by signal 15″. Here is an easy way to solve this:

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Posted 24 January 2010 † Markus Weimer § ‡ Comments (2) °

Informatik der TU Darmstadt vorne im CHE Hochschulranking. Was heisst das?

Die TU Darmstadt freut sich an verschiedenen Stellen, z.B hier auf der Homepage das Fachbereichs Informatik und zuletzt auch auf Facebook, demonstrativ über die gute Platzierung im “CHE Hochschulranking” im Fach Informatik. Man neigt dazu, an dieser Stelle wie gewohnt “Gratulation!” zu denken und die Sache zu den Akten zu legen. Ich habe mir mal [...]

Posted 20 January 2010 † Markus Weimer § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

How to compile Apache Mahout on OS X

Compiling Apache Mahout should be straight forward on OS X, as the system comes with all the requirements needed. Turns out that is only partially true, as I hit two issues along the way:

Wrong Java Version

Problem: I got the error ‘javac: invalid target release: 1.6′ even though I set Java 6 to be the default [...]

Posted 03 January 2010 † Markus Weimer § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,