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 : “The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.”—D. Crockfordgithub.com/douglascrockfo…Z (not endorsing the license)

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Analyzing & Predicting Quality Flaws in User-generated Content: The Case of -uni-weimar.de/medien/webis/p…I (via @manuwath@WikiResearchh)

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

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In , you can specify the min. number of lines at the top/bottom of pages via widows/orphans (I use 3 in ) w3.org/TR/CSS21/page.…

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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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WikiLiveMon Candidate: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidente… [Edits: 10, Editors: 7, Langs: 5, Stories: twitter.com/AndreaM_B/stat…, twitter.com/BangSHINee/sta…]

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Current status: fixing orphans & widows in . W/ 200+pp. not a simple task. latexmk to the rescue: users.phys.psu.edu/~collins/softw…

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Today’s on Scary Names is a tough one. I had to do some research, but the Helvetica Scenario is explained here: youtube.com/watch?v=rqfSqU…

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~RT @nicolastorzec: is hiring in SF: craigslist.org/about/craigsli… // “A workplace free of VCs, MBAs, sales, marketing, biz dev…” :-)

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I found the currvita package to work well for embedding a simple resume in my thesis ctan.org/tex-archive/ma…

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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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__DavidFlanagan Obama’s unscripted remarks on race: youtube.com/watch?v=ujzZvR…
Video is better than transcript; you can see the thought and emotion.

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Deck bit.ly/icme2013 & paper lsi.upc.edu/~tsteiner/pape… of our 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 goes flat, ’s preaches 3D: “[…] icons should be 3D, front view, w/ a slight perspective”android-developers.blogspot.com/2013/07/making…NU

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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 . It’s been a tough ride. Up next: ToDos & fixing layout issues: lh3.googleusercontent.com/-tBt1WlrLy3I/U…

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@mahemoff Looking forward to it. Dug out a polyfill (github.com/polymer/HTMLIm…) in a conversation w/ @stilkov today: twitter.com/tomayac/status….

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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? github.com/polymer/HTMLIm…

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@stilkov Fair enough, but you’ve a best practice not implemented yet dilemma. The deprecated practice had its justified use cases..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 src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?v…): dvcs.w3.org/hg/webcomponen…

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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 support on : googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2013/07/google… (CC: @dewitt)

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Excellent blog post w/ examples on how to add temporal context to statements: blog.mynarz.net/2013/07/captur…, 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 licenses supported by @github: choosealicense.com/licenses/ software is all Apache 2.0 licensed. (via @izuzak)

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@cramforce Didn’t know that. The best is the payment option, for obvious reasons :-) Cf. twitter.com/cramforce/stat… (me flying American)

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Instead of watching movies, I’m working on —at 34,000 feet above the ground, flying to3 in San Jose, CA. +1 in-flight WiFi!

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Favorite new / in-browser library: async.js by @caolan: parallel, serial, doWhile,..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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nicolastorzec Inside Google’s Infinite Music Intelligence Machine: collaborative filtering, machine listening, editorial curation. fastcolabs.com/3014183/open-c…

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jennifernvictor The sound of a hundred dissertations dying: the flaws of Mechanical Turk themonkeycage.org/2013/07/10/don… h/t @monkeycageblog

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On the use of proprietary data in peer-reviewed papers: sigir.org/forum/2012D/p0… (via @merrierm > @milesosborne)

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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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ndiakopoulos Looking for paper PDFs? They’re online here: aaai.org/ocs/index.php/…

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@icwsm folks, here’s your power saved search: twitter.com/search?q=%23ic…

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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 ‘amazon.com/gp/help/custom…WRv3

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Emailed @LeaVerou’s excellent blog post regarding (most) Women in Tech initiatives pensieve.verou.me/post/548531625… to someone. Hope they consider it.

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jaffathecake The DOM4 spec has NodeList inheriting Array methods, unfortunately there are backwards compat issues. Star this: code.google.com/p/chromium/iss…

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@edsu @milesosborne It is (albeit quite hidden). Found it in the “News” section demeter.inf.ed.ac.uk/cross/docs/New…

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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. developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web… (“Why can’t I use […]”). CC@mathiasas

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Petrović, @milesosborne et al. ask Can replace Newswire for ?—Spoiler alert: no!homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/miles/papers/s…e (via@presroii)

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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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GoogleDE FAZ Gastbeitrag von Google’s David Drummond zu faz.net/aktuell/wirtsc… / Bundesnetzagentur mit 34 Mio (!) Daten-Anfragen in 2011

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mikeal quickly becoming the best guide for *anyone* to learn node. github.com/maxogden/art-o…

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

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“But this [slowness], like all problems, can be solved with MOAR CSS!”—medium.com/what-i-learned…G

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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 youtube.com/watch?v=a3jdHt… 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 Live Monitor to show spark lines, but then I’d need moar langs ;-)

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@hfmuehleisen Wow! Is the API public? wikistats.ins.cwi.nl/export.php?&pa…. Request: add entity type for disambiguation. Rename x/y to timestamp/pageViews

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weekly page view stats (2008–mid 2013) in a Google-Trends-like stylewikistats.ins.cwi.nlTh. Made b@hfmuehleisenen.

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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 w/ a modal “Download our app” alert? _hates_ them, too: developers.google.com/webmasters/sma…

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caseorganic Doug Englebart, mouse inventor and more, passed away last night. Rest in peace Doug. You gave the world so much. ietf.org/mail-archive/w…

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If you missed it, Live Monitor @WikiLiveMon now has an feed w/ candidates: groups.google.com/forum/feed/wik…

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edsu The Origin of Tweet furbo.org/2013/06/28/the…

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rtroncy “EventSense: Capturing the Pulse of Large-scale Events by Mining Social Media Streams”, slidesha.re/1ayJIox by @kompats / cc @tomayac

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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. eventifier.co “Smarter way to archive ALL your event photos, videos, slides, tweets […]”

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dvanliere launched beta of VisualEditor a ‘what-you-see-is-what-you-get’ editor and makes editing much easier blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/01/vis…

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Ex @googlereader engineer @mihai went the extra mile to save _all_ (your) data readerisdead.com & blog.persistent.info/2013/06/gettin…

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