Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

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

November 2014

dcabo The menace of memes: how pictures can paint a thousand lies blogs.spectator.co.uk/isabel-hardman… Validate your memes, people pic.twitter.com/xslrnJoOTp

via Tweetbot for Mac (retweeted on 9:18 PM, Nov 30th, 2014 via Echofon)

@datao If you work with @polymer, then polymer-project.org/docs/start/reu… is an excellent starting point.

via Echofon in reply to datao

codetalkshh Mit Realtime Streaming Data Naturkatastrophen verhindern! Thomas Steiner @tomayac von @Google zeigte es:goo.gl/Zd9NrZ @codetalks14

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 4:04 PM, Nov 28th, 2014 via Echofon)

stewsnooze @mahemoff no chance. Try mosh.mit.edu . I use that on trains. Not perfect

via Tweetbot for iΟS (retweeted on 8:15 PM, Nov 26th, 2014 via Echofon)

Created a simple live demo for my <polymer-ldf-client> @LDFragments @polymer Web Component: tomayac.github.io/polymer-ldf-cl… Thanks @pietercolpaert :D

via Echofon

This one for the iOS / OSX networking geek in you: medium.com/@mariociabarra…. WiFried kills Bonjour over AWDL, by @mariociabarra.

via Echofon

From Facebook’s Data Science team: what we (Americans that is) are thankful for facebook.com/notes/facebook… No surprises, yet nice.

via Echofon

Extract data from pages w/ Google Tag Manager—Slice & dice in@googleanalyticssbit.ly/1Fpc6odC (via@aarangedd@sayfshariff)

via Echofon

LDFragments Querying Linked Data in HTML5 has never been easier: via a simple tag, you can query in a streaming or polling way github.com/tomayac/polyme…

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 11:39 AM, Nov 26th, 2014 via Echofon)

@RubenVerborgh Five reviews, five times “2 (accept)”. That’s a first :-)

via Echofon in reply to RubenVerborgh

RubenVerborgh Paper on disaster monitoring via Wikipedia and social media by @tomayac and me accepted for an AAAI Spring Symposium ruben.verborgh.org/publications/s…

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 11:25 AM, Nov 26th, 2014 via Echofon)

@apassant Yepp, make the genres linkable: 24.mdg.io/#jazz Cool app, besides, Germany’s GEMA :-( pic.twitter.com/bFgE2Gbl9V

via Echofon in reply to apassant

~RT @apassant: New @TwitterMusic experience 24.mdg.io 24 genres/tracks/hours. | +1! Bonus—save state w/developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web…p

via Echofon

First usable version of my @polymer @LDFragments Web Component: github.com/tomayac/polyme…. Supports streaming & polling. (CC: @RubenVerborgh)

via Twitter Web Client

.@ynagar1 @WikiResearch Average edit length (delta) on Wikipedia per lang.-gist.github.com/tomayac/e7e58f…0 (paste uglified part in browser console).

via Echofon in reply to ynagar1

wsREST Henry S. Thompson asks: “Has REST outlived its usefulness?” ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/HST_noREST… Would love to see a paper version of the talk at WS-REST.

via Echofon (retweeted on 8:20 AM, Nov 25th, 2014 via Echofon)

googlewmc Check if pages on your site pass the test at g.co/mobilefriendly. pic.twitter.com/qb0j7qeqd4

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 11:50 PM, Nov 24th, 2014 via Echofon)

@pchampin LOL, full story or it didn’t happen :-)

via Echofon in reply to pchampin

TimHarford The XKCD Guide to the fourth, fifth etc. dimensions. Superbly done. dlvr.it/7byx3Z

via dlvr.it (retweeted on 10:38 PM, Nov 24th, 2014 via Echofon)

IAugenstein Nice demo and : train neural networks in your browser cs.stanford.edu/people/karpath… @karpathy

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 10:30 PM, Nov 24th, 2014 via Echofon)

@RubenVerborgh Made some progress..github.com/tomayac/polyme…Up. responseFormat=”streaming” fully works, “polling” still needs some love :-)

via Echofon in reply to RubenVerborgh

@gklyne @wsREST Maybe you get inspired once you see our CfP :-) We can’t do much about the travel budget, besides maybe VC you in…

via Echofon in reply to gklyne

@IgorBrigadir Guess why our paper is called “MJ no more…”arxiv.org/abs/1303.4702aD). Full text search for “shoulders” :-@milesosbornene

via Echofon in reply to IgorBrigadir

mafintosh My slides for my talk are available here, mafintosh.github.io/slides/oneshot… - the torrent-docker stuff starts here, mafintosh.github.io/slides/oneshot…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 3:56 PM, Nov 21st, 2014 via Echofon)

@gklyne Judging from your REST tweet spree, you might be interested in submitting to @wsREST :-)

via Echofon in reply to gklyne

@edsu Right. For the time being, one can <del>at best</del><ins>simply</ins> roll ones own instance of Wikipedia Live Monitor ;-)

via Echofon in reply to edsu

@IgorBrigadir @edsu Fair enough, but no history (no std. deviation) for “just now” created breaking news articles… But works for many cases.

via Echofon in reply to IgorBrigadir

@IgorBrigadir @karpathy @edsu LOL, mostly this. Initially required >1 languages, but now ≥1. Also had ≥2 concurrent editors, now ≥3.

via Echofon in reply to IgorBrigadir

IgorBrigadir RT @karpathy “We set α = 0.1 because that’s the only number we had time to try and it seemed to work okay ” :P @tomayac @edsu

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 3:34 PM, Nov 21st, 2014 via Echofon)

@edsu For text-only: github.com/tomayac/wikipe…. For media galleries: github.com/tomayac/wikipe…. Hi callback hell ;-)

via Echofon in reply to edsu

@edsu Fully agree. Human in the loop makes total sense, also common “stop hashtags”, like stop words now. Internationally for all languages.

via Echofon in reply to edsu

@edsu (In no way saying current settings’re perfect.) Long-term, article analysis needed & better understanding of article creation process.

via Echofon in reply to edsu

@edsu Getting these thresholds “right” is incredibly hard. Also very much a matter of taste and how “breaking” you require the news to be.

via Echofon in reply to edsu

@edsu Yes. Also surprised, but breaking news conditions (see paper or settings in app) weren’t fulfilled. Mostly ≥3 concurrent editors one.

via Echofon in reply to edsu

apassant Sharing @YouTube on @Twitter: Analytics using @fbase +
apassant.net/2014/11/21/sha… /cc @felipehoffa @akowal @wjarek @narphorium

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 10:40 AM, Nov 21st, 2014 via Echofon)

@netlabsorg @RubenVerborgh Ironing out some issues later today w/ Ruben, but watch this space for updates ;-)

via Echofon in reply to linkedktk

@edsu Probably a lot of noise, think of hashtags like . Worth playing around w/, though, interesting idea! Looking forward to code :-)

via Echofon in reply to edsu

@edsu Possible: let @WikiLiveMon detect breaking news, extract hashtags from rel. microposts (based on article titles), follow $TWTR stream.

via Echofon in reply to edsu

@lbjay @edsu People who like @WikiLiveMon also tend to like @mediagalleries ;-) First described here arxiv.org/abs/1403.4289.

via Echofon in reply to lbjay

@remagio @edsu Sure, you can simply adapt github.com/tomayac/wikipe… to make @WikiLiveMon cover only part of the Wikiverse.

via Echofon in reply to remagio

@edsu @lbjay You could adapt the “email” function (link last tweet) & extract hashtags from found microposts; then archive to DB (or email).

via Echofon in reply to edsu

@lbjay @edsu Not sure I fully follow, but @WikiLiveMon already lets you archive posts related to detected events: github.com/tomayac/wikipe…

via Echofon in reply to lbjay

IAugenstein New journal paper by @LeonDerczynski et al. “Analysis of named entity recognition and linking for tweets” sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 1:03 AM, Nov 21st, 2014 via Echofon)

Spent the night working on a <polymer-ldf-client> element—Linked Data Fragments client as a Web Component. (CC:@RubenVerborghh)

via Echofon

@RubenVerborgh Commenter 1 (not reviewer 3 (-; ) captures the situation quite adequately: techblog.netflix.com/2014/11/nodejs…

via Echofon in reply to RubenVerborgh

aemkei Releasing “M4TR1X 雨” at @jsconfasia: aem1k.com/matrix – Animated JS source code using Asian chars only1pic.twitter.com/aoxxBzxXYSYS

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 9:19 AM, Nov 20th, 2014 via Echofon)

@dret Thanks! Exciting times ahead :-)

via Echofon in reply to dret

Yahoo and Mozilla announce a five year search deal that makes Y! the default search engine in Firefox: blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/11/1…

via Echofon

Turns out we (@RubenVerborgh, @cpedrinaci, I) will organize the ’15 edition of @wsREST—the now 6th Int. Workshop on RESTful Design.5

via Echofon

@MarkusLanthaler Well plaid ;-) Not sure I will find the time to dive into the source code, though…

via Echofon in reply to MarkusLanthaler

wsREST The workshop has been accepted for the conference. Website and CfP following shortly. See you all there!

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 8:01 PM, Nov 19th, 2014 via Echofon)

@MarkusLanthaler @cygri Perfect :D That’s what I was hoping for. Great work both! Maybe worth adding as an option to json-ld.org/playground/.

via Twitter Web Client in reply to MarkusLanthaler

@derSteve Tell me if you can compile it; I’m not entirely sure of the .gitignore (ignored common Eclipse & GWT files, hopefully correctly).

via Twitter Web Client in reply to derSteve

@derSteve Finished the migration to GitHub: github.com/tomayac/rest-d…. Last compiled w/ gwt-mac-1.4.10/gwt-user.jar (gwtproject.org/versions.html).

via Twitter Web Client in reply to derSteve

@derSteve GitHub wasn’t around yet in 2007 ;-) Happy to move; tonight, though, as I’m on the road now…

via Twitter for iPhone in reply to derSteve

@derSteve The code generation snippets in com·google·code·apis·rest·client·CodeGeneration·* is the best I can offer then. Sorry.

via Twitter Web Client in reply to derSteve

If you’re using local-reverse-geocoder (npmjs.org/package/local-…), please update to v0.0.7 that uses a better distance formula.

via Echofon

@derSteve I see. I have only worked on a GUI version for PHP, Ruby, etc. For a Java CLI, there is cxf.apache.org/docs/jaxrs-ser….

via Twitter Web Client in reply to derSteve

@derSteve The app is unchanged—but working—since ’07, deployed hertomayac.com/rest-describe/…IU. Aleplus.google.com/u/1/1113487677…wQ was working on C#.

via Twitter Web Client in reply to derSteve

@cygri @MarkusLanthaler This is the most useful addition to JSON-LD ever ;-) Thanks! Any commitment regarding its update frequency?

via Twitter Web Client in reply to cygri

cygri A JSON-LD context that declares all namespace prefixes known to prefix.cc: prefix.cc/context (implemented by @MarkusLanthaler)

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 2:46 PM, Nov 15th, 2014 via Echofon)

@RubenVerborgh @KKjernsmo “I am _a_ Semantic Web developer”—No! You are _the_ Semantic Web developer of the year :-)

via Echofon in reply to RubenVerborgh

@WikiResearch Has anyone ever examined which of the examined disease articles had a Google HTTP refer(r)er, i.e., came from disease queries?

via Echofon in reply to WikiResearch

stilkov Comet 67P pictures: flickr.com/photos/europea…

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 3:44 PM, Nov 13th, 2014 via Echofon)

@ReaderMeter @Wiktionary Happy to jump on a VC to talk you through some of our webmaster recommendations (tomac AT google DOT com).

via Echofon in reply to ReaderMeter

@magrawala You’re bundling way too much files. Check the manifest.json for the necessary files. Great work nevertheless.

via Echofon in reply to magrawala

@magrawala Version I have (d3-deconstructor.crx) contains an extension (decon-plugin.crx) in an extension (decon-plugin.crx) in an extension

via Echofon in reply to magrawala

@magrawala Why is the bundled extension so huge?

via Echofon

German Scrabble bonkersworld.net/images/2014.11… (by @lmanul) Typo: Lebensabschnitt_s_partner ;D Bonus: Lebensabschnittsgefährte (1 more, more common)

via Echofon

Interestingly @magrawala et al. make a Chrome extension available that allows for testing the D3.js “deconstruction” github.com/ucbvislab/d3-d…

via Echofon

Cool paper explaining how to go from a D3.js visualization back to the underlying data: vis.berkeley.edu/papers/d3decon… (via @magrawala > @bkeegan)

via Echofon

pietercolpaert “Only use open standards”, I was told in a “.doc” document. Attached a tar with txt file containing base64 encoding of “OK” and hit “send”.

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 6:18 PM, Nov 12th, 2014 via Echofon)

@datao @ubilabs Let me work on it a bit more… My idea is to allow for a dynamic data provider strategy, so that you can select whichever.

via Echofon in reply to datao

@datao @ubilabs Don’t know. GeoNames say their dataset contains all cities w/ 1000+ inhabitants. Maybe allow for data provider to be chosen.

via Echofon in reply to datao

Olivier_Grenet Fantastic work by @__ted__ : advanced typesetting for the web: txtjs.com , a canvas text engine in TypeScript

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 2:55 AM, Nov 12th, 2014 via Echofon for Android PRO)

For local-reverse-geocoder (npmjs.org/package/local-…), I was inspired by @webscraping’s Python code: webscraping.com/blog/Reverse-G…. Open source FTW!

via Echofon

local-reverse-geocoder npmjs.org/package/local-… stands on the shoulders of @ubilabs’ k-d tree & GeoNames dumps download.geonames.org/export/dump/ Thanks!

via Echofon

@pietercolpaert Merci :D I needed a local batch geocoder and there was none, so I made one ;-) All props to the GeoNames folks for the data!

via Echofon in reply to pietercolpaert

I’ve made an Apache 2.0 licensed, dependency-free local reverse geocoder for Node.js based on GeoNames-npmjs.org/package/local-…G

via Twitter Web Client

@RubenVerborgh Yeah, aware of this “audialization”. Loving it!

via Echofon for Android PRO in reply to RubenVerborgh

cpojer For the first time in many years I have publicly posted a blog post: “Breaking the web with JavaScript”
medium.com/@cpojer/breaki…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 12:57 AM, Nov 11th, 2014 via Echofon)

.@jteevan on Related Work, the least favorite section of authors & the favorite section of reviewers: slowsearching.blogspot.com/2014/11/a-form…

via Echofon

Thanking @ubilabs for their k-d tree implementation: github.com/ubilabs/kd-tre….

via Echofon

joernhees How to setup a local with 3.5 billion triples ( & 2014) with 7 joernhees.de/blog/2014/11/1…

via joernhees.de/blog (retweeted on 7:04 PM, Nov 10th, 2014 via Echofon)

Walked around aimlessly on the streets of San Francisco just to bump into my former intern @arnaudbrousseau… Beers are going to be had.

via Echofon

einsamorales El meu petit país és tant gran que ja no cap dins l’actual Estat espanyol. pic.twitter.com/OqfRHDe337

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 11:44 AM, Nov 9th, 2014 via Twitter Web Client)

Seems like is indeed having a referendum today, despite all adversities. pic.twitter.com/FmzrQ7q2tO

via Echofon

newsycombinator What’s Going on in Catalonia? interactius.ara.cat/9n/en

via newsycombinator (retweeted on 4:38 AM, Nov 9th, 2014 via Echofon)

Infodisiac 1 minute Wikipedia pageviews (480,000 avg) / Twitter tweets (320,000 9am EST) = 1.5. In other words curiosity beats vanity 3:2

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 4:25 PM, Nov 5th, 2014 via Echofon)

.@Infodisiac Twitter streaming API—realtime. Wikipedia edits API wikipedia-edits.herokuapp.com/sse4)—realtime. Wikipedia views—hourly (+1). Realtime?

via Echofon in reply to Infodisiac

philarcher1 Nice to see @RubenVerborgh quoted at (if you want intelligent clients, stop building intelligent servers)

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 4:17 PM, Nov 5th, 2014 via Echofon)

velofemme Hashtag standards for use in emergencies: @UNOCHA report: app.box.com/s/yvobt4n9wptq…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 12:30 PM, Nov 5th, 2014 via Echofon)

@nelson Works most of the time, but occasionally doesn’t. Experienced this as well.

via Echofon in reply to nelson

kerfors New blog post: My Trip report kerfors.blogspot.se/2014/11/iswc20… also with links to reports from @tomayac @pgroth @RubenVerborgh

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 9:46 AM, Nov 5th, 2014 via Twitter Web Client)

@netlabsorg One of the few things I missed from Windows Explorer now finally on Mac :-) Power to the right click!

via Echofon in reply to linkedktk

Default Folder X stclairsoft.com/DefaultFolderX… by @stclairsoft—truly one of the apps I can’t live withoutmacworld.com/article/202719…b. Fixes OSX Finder.

via Echofon

After all those years (blog.tomayac.com/index.php?date…) and triggered by a user report, managed to fix my blog’s Atom feed: blog.tomayac.com/atom.php.

via Twitter Web Client

Unethical uses for public Twitter data - Adrian Short - adrianshort.org/unethical-twit… (link from @bkeegan’s post brianckeegan.com/2014/10/my-15-…)

via Echofon