Yearly Archives: 2009
Cascading’s Logparser example in Clojure
I’ve long been interested in working with Cascading but didn’t relish the thought of jumping back into Java. Thankfully with the arrival of Clojure I can now happily play in my less-typing world.
I wanted to get a basic Cascading demo running so I took the Logparser example from the distribution and ported it over to [...]
Another reason I like Clojure
Exploring new packages of code, say the latest jar from Echo Nest, is incredibly easy and just plain fun. For instance:
(import '(com.echonest.api.v3.artist Artist ArtistAPI DocumentList))
(def artist-api (new ArtistAPI "YOUR DEV KEY HERE"))
(def hot-artists (. artist-api getTopHotttArtists 10))
(println (.. (first hot-artists) getItem getName))
Will spit out “Papercuts” (as of the time of this writing), the current #1 [...]
Big in Twitter offline
UPDATE: Fixed!
Something broke during a recent OS upgrade. Hopefully will have it back up sometime today. Thanks.
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A few examples of Digital meeting Real Life
To hear the Sufjan Stevens’s track “The Lonely Man of Winter” you have to pack some headphones and travel to Brooklyn. There you will find a one Alec Duffy, contest winner and owner of the exclusive rights to the song.
Duffy didn’t think uploading it and sharing it was special enough. To hear it you need [...]
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The Colors Of Verner Panton from Colourlovers
“Verner Panton is considered one of Denmark’s most influential 20th-century furniture and interior designers. During his career, he created innovative and futuristic designs in a variety of materials, especially plastics, and in vibrant colors.” Check out the entire post; loaded with fantastic images.
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More bacon and chocolate fun
Another in a long line of bacon + chocolate delights. Full recipe available.
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Big in Twitter is small on accuracy
Last few days have been a good example of what’s wrong with relying on a plain old Bayes classifier. Big in Twitter has had the band “The Field” up as the most popular with 671 mentions. The next, Peter King, only has 51 mentions. There’s nothing technically wrong with the classifier (I’m using the gem) [...]
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Life Magazine, Hell’s Angels, the girlfriends, 1965
The Selvedge Yard puts together another great collection, Bottoms Up! | A Love Affair with Taverns, Bars & Pubs, of pics from the Life Magazine photo archive.
Look at these wholesome Hell’s Angels girlfriends. Fascinated with the one on the far right. Hair in rollers, post-nose job(?). Great cheekbones at that table too.
I suppose the helmet [...]
Big In Twitter has moved
Find it over at my other home, http://gavinmcgovern.com, now.
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RIP Julius Shulman