Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @tomayac ever

July 2013

Last line of #TomsPhD: “The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.”—D. Crockford https://t.co/lZ9XTLswbZ (not endorsing the license)

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Analyzing & Predicting Quality Flaws in User-generated Content: The Case of #Wikipedia—http://t.co/BMgoBzXJ6I (via @manuwath @WikiResearch)

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project_mmixer workshop keynote & presentations slides now online at mediamixer.eu/event/mmix2013/

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In #CSS, you can specify the min. number of lines at the top/bottom of pages via widows/orphans (I use 3 in #TomsPhD) http://t.co/6XONl3fAq9

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: code w/ the pure purpose of avoiding orphans. : LaTeX code w/ the pure purpose of avoiding widows. //

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RT @WikiLiveMon: #BreakingNews Candidate: http://t.co/fs2YQARUQ6 [Edits: 10, Editors: 7, Langs: 5, Stories: https://t.co/9oYJbj0Arc, https:…

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Current status: fixing orphans & widows in #TomsPhD. W/ 200+pp. not a simple task. latexmk to the rescue: http://t.co/DtEktjhjBg #Typography

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Today’s #xkcd on Scary Names is a tough one. I had to do some research, but the Helvetica Scenario is explained here: http://t.co/WaLEdZn0tl

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~RT @nicolastorzec: #Craigslist is hiring in SF: http://t.co/R2b9Aolqgp // “A workplace free of VCs, MBAs, sales, marketing, biz dev…” :-)

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@sharelatex For an example of currvita in use, check, e.g., https://t.co/ZkZXG8ddIu.

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I found the #LaTeX currvita package to work well for embedding a simple resume in my #TomsPhD #PhD thesis http://t.co/IGXqq0cMtD

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ndiakopoulos Analyzing big data with twitter, a UC Berkeley course with all lectures online: blogs.ischool.berkeley.edu/i290-abdt-s12/

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TheRealBuzz 44 years ago today Neil took this photo of me at Tranquility Base on the moon. We all miss you Neil. buzzaldrin.com/files/15.jpg

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RT @__DavidFlanagan: Obama’s unscripted remarks on race: http://t.co/L9DlwRcv62
Video is better than transcript; you can see the thought an…

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Deck http://t.co/9hdvs0XthB & paper http://t.co/67pAzcyUoR of our #ICME2013 #MMix talk on Descr Media Item Diff w Media Frags & Speech Synth

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Chen et al:Analysis of Visual Similarity in News Videos w/ Robust & Memory-Efficient Image Retrieval pic.twitter.com/ODlJTYzfmW

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While #iOS goes flat, #Android’s #design preaches 3D: “[…] icons should be 3D, front view, w/ a slight perspective”. http://t.co/tMXlFgvrNU

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Live Monitor was down for a couple of hours due to a forced security update requiring a system reboot. @WikiLiveMon is back now.

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Finished proofreading the paper version of #TomsPhD. It’s been a tough ride. Up next: ToDos & fixing layout issues: https://t.co/4ZqLGEk5LR

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@mahemoff Looking forward to it. Dug out a polyfill (https://t.co/xvgFClTXWT) in a conversation w/ @stilkov today: http://t.co/aFXUOQRK3f.

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googleresearch Google releases data consisting of ~800 million documents annotated with ~11 billion references to Freebase entities goo.gl/JoVBC

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@stilkov Client- or server-side? For the concrete problem, there’re solutions on both sides, w/ pros & cons (think indexing, non-JS env.,…).

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@stilkov Oh! “Compiling” HTML sends students the wrong signal IMHO. I’d prefer a pre-built HTML template w/ the polyfill (& comment on why).

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@stilkov Wait, does that mean your students have to compile their HTML after each iteration? Or is the conversion happening on-the-fly?

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@stilkov Not aware of any, but should be simple enough to create one :-)

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morning keynote day 2: M. Gross from @Disney Research Zurich, Switzerland: graphics.ethz.ch/~grossm/ twitpic.com/d364op

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@stilkov If it’s purely for teaching purposes, why don’t you work w/ a polyfill? https://t.co/xvgFClTXWT

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@stilkov Fair enough, but you’ve a best practice not implemented yet dilemma. The deprecated practice had its justified use casesâ€01

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Muting yet another Twitter client (in @echofon): “Twitter for Glass”. be gone. For the record, fascinated by @GoogleGlass.

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@stilkov If it has to be pure HTML (sans server), then exactly this is an ideal candidate for iframes or even frames (as ugly as it sounds).

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@stilkov Then I fear iframe is your technology of choice (if you want to keep it simple and entry-level friendly).

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@stilkov You mean what will work once HTML Imports is implemented (progressing in #Blink http://t.co/3XSPhoeO3M): https://t.co/aDbRq3b6Ak

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@mac_nibblet Not sure I understand the question… Migrations of what? Disclaimer: I’m not working on the App Engine team.

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Now that we have “$ git push appengine master”, all I want for Xmas is #nodeJS support on #AppEngine: http://t.co/ydJMFqQOJM (CC: @dewitt)

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Excellent blog post w/ examples on how to add temporal context to #RDF statements: http://t.co/Fo7j9xs4tU, by @jindrichmynarz.

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@RubenVerborgh @TomDeNies Congratulations both! Team Belgium keeps hijacking conferences ;-)

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!’s fight in the secret surveillance court featured in @EFF’s “Who Has Your Back” report eff.org/r.4bXb (via @BrendanEich)

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Overview of #OpenSource licenses supported by @GitHub: http://t.co/Ufw2XEEfPJ #TomsPhD software is all Apache 2.0 licensed. (via @izuzak)

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@cramforce Didn’t know that. The best is the #iPass payment option, for obvious reasons :-) Cf. http://t.co/j62nagXleP (me flying American)

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Instead of watching movies, I’m working on —at 34,000 feet above the ground, flying t13 in San Jose, CA. +1 in-flight WiFi!

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Favorite new / in-browser library: async.js by @caolan: parallel, serial, doWhile,â€github.com/caolan/asyncXF Thanks, Sir!

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@nicolastorzec May be a good candidate for porting to via . Have never tried it due to limited time atm. ().

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@stilkov Hehe, limited supply (as on YouTube w/ all the content ID removals) is a good motivation to watch stuff in foreign languages :-)

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@stilkov Does she watch in en-US, tho? My kids watch Caillou in en-US, but only cause they’ve watched the de & es ones on YouTube already.

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@spbail The connection is too slow :-( It’s GPRS at best, but enough to get work done, so overall still winning.

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Reviewing parts of @RubenVerborgh’s at 34,000 feet & in-flight WiFi. On my way to (San Jose, CA). Living in the future.

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RT @nicolastorzec: Inside Google’s Infinite Music Intelligence Machine: collaborative filtering, machine listening, editorial curation. htt…

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RT @jennifernvictor: The sound of a hundred dissertations dying: the flaws of Mechanical Turk http://t.co/EhcR7vD97q h/t @monkeycageblog

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On the use of proprietary data in peer-reviewed #research papers: http://t.co/DhQER6aOWV (via @merrierm > @milesosborne)

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~RT @bkeegan: […] Yelp fake review detector http://t.co/u0iQvRFdae Work on Google by @ancsaaa3 http://t.co/TpBRrcJIEj CC: @arnaudbrousseau

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nicolastorzec String matching: the Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm and its Partial Match table explained in simple words prsm.tc/9cL70v - via @aria42

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@hfmuehleisen Congratulations! Do you share a pre-print? Thanks.

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somebitsLinks Zombie Google Reader: Former Google engineer grabs all HTML, Javascript, etc and reanimated Google Reader dlvr.it/3dBN6n

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RT @ndiakopoulos: Looking for #ICWSM paper PDFs? They’re online here: http://t.co/HZ01Gj1j0w

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@ICWSM #ICWSM folks, here’s your #Twitter power saved search: https://t.co/y1qKmyQxlK

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@ndiakopoulos LOL, you better get a good lawyer if your black box’s URL matches /^https?:\/\/www.amazon.com\//i :-)

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@ndiakopoulos While I agree it would be interesting, it’s a black box, so during a (long) observation window, their logic may have changed.

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@ndiakopoulos Don’t ;-) “This license does not include any collection and use of […] prices […].” (mind the ‘;’) http://t.co/47RNHWWRv3

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@ndiakopoulos Ever heard of this story written down by @mbeisen? http://t.co/4KdPOiyIIc

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Emailed @LeaVerou’s excellent blog post regarding (most) Women in Tech initiatives http://t.co/3Em8M0PaJx to someone. Hope they consider it.

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RT @jaffathecake: The DOM4 spec has NodeList inheriting Array methods, unfortunately there are backwards compat issues. Star this: https://…

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@edsu @milesosborne It is (albeit quite hidden). Found it in the “News” section http://t.co/92HUsI5Xq2

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@jaffathecake @mathias +1. The most productive way to get this in browsers seems feature requests, not fighting the symptoms w/ polyfills…

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@jaffathecake Seems like the wrong approach to add a missed feature. Also cf. https://t.co/g8XAOB6w2K (“Why can’t I use […]”). CC: @mathias

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Petrović, @MilesOsborne et al. ask Can #Twitter replace Newswire for #BreakingNews?—Spoiler alert: no! http://t.co/EG14lRCGle (via @presroi)

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Spent the day uniting social-media-illustrator.herokuapp.com & wikipedia-irc.herokuapp.com. Still raw & uncut, but slowly happy w/ . The circle closes!

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RT @GoogleDE: FAZ Gastbeitrag von Google’s David Drummond zu #prism http://t.co/afP8oDOe2a / Bundesnetzagentur mit 34 Mio (!) Daten-Anfrag…

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RT @mikeal: quickly becoming the best guide for *anyone* to learn node. https://t.co/ZUhpYxSv9V

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@hfmuehleisen document.location.hash.split(‘|’).unique() => http://t.co/6aTq8ibJjK

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1234 on Douglas C. Engelbart. xkcd.com/1234/ Brilliant.

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“But this [slowness], like all #CSS problems, can be solved with MOAR CSS!”— https://t.co/LsRvCE6hzG

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@protonet Yet another event summary of the launch event, it gets meta :-) twitpic.com/d0t83n

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@protonet Some impressions from your launch event via . Thanks for the invitation. twitpic.com/d0t777

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@hfmuehleisen http://t.co/9HXE2AEAA0 Prefix all article titles like en:Queen. You can do that already, no matter if you have all langs now.

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@hfmuehleisen It’s en.wikipedia only, right? I might use it in #Wikipedia Live Monitor to show spark lines, but then I’d need moar langs ;-)

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@hfmuehleisen Wow! Is the API public? http://t.co/6v9uAntybV. Request: add entity type for disambiguation. Rename x/y to timestamp/pageViews

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#Wikipedia weekly page view stats (2008—mid 2013) in a Google-Trends-like style: http://t.co/o7W8M1I3Th. Made by @hfmuehleisen.

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The visual summary of Douglas Engelbart’s death by is (from my biased view) to-the-point, too. twitpic.com/d0qiza

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’s & social networks’ tributes to D. Engelbart, seen thru Wikipedia Live Monitor (@WikiLiveMon) twitpic.com/d0qi0e

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Ever opened a Web page on #mobile w/ a modal “Download our app” alert? #Google _hates_ them, too: https://t.co/2dwjOnP2n6 #SEO

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RT @caseorganic: Doug Englebart, mouse inventor and more, passed away last night. Rest in peace Doug. You gave the world so much. http://t.…

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If you missed it, #Wikipedia Live Monitor @WikiLiveMon now has an #RSS feed w/ #BreakingNews candidates: https://t.co/k44IRHXs7u

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RT @rtroncy: “EventSense: Capturing the Pulse of Large-scale Events by Mining Social Media Streams”, http://t.co/EsAfplG9Z8 by @kompats / c…

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@schirra If you don’t mind, I wouldn’t mind to see both ;-) If you don’t want to share things publicly, just DM me (followed you). Thanks!

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@schirra Will you share your slides? If not, how could I learn more? Thanks!

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@rtroncy Archive rather than summary. Cf. http://t.co/SABVXdrEDL “Smarter way to archive ALL your event photos, videos, slides, tweets […]”

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RT @dvanliere: #wikipedia launched beta of VisualEditor a ‘what-you-see-is-what-you-get’ editor and makes editing much easier http://t.co/X…

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Ex @GoogleReader engineer @mihai went the extra mile to save _all_ (your) #GReader data http://t.co/cvYxm16yQR & http://t.co/uGjHhGj5ek

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