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Crime Rate Comparison - Compare US City Crime Rates
Crime Rate Comparison - Compare US City Crime Rates
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New Search Technologies Mine the Web More Deeply - NYTimes.com
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Google’s Deep Web search strategy involves sending out a program to analyze the contents of every database it encounters. For example, if the search engine finds a page with a form related to fine art, it starts guessing likely search terms — “Rembrandt,” “Picasso,” “Vermeer” and so on — until one of those terms returns a match. The search engine then analyzes the results and develops a predictive model of what the database contains.
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If You Use the Web, You May Have Already Been Enlisted as a Human Scanner: Scientific American
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hose anti-bot security forms that slow you down when you're entering information just might serve a larger purpose
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Scientific American: Meraki's Guerilla Wi-Fi to Put a Billion More People Online
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As long as each Mini can "see" at least one other Mini (they have to be within 100 feet of one another indoors or within 700 feet in areas where the signal is not impeded by walls or buildings), the network will self-configure. Minis that are actually plugged into the Internet act as routers; the ones that are not act as repeaters, retransmitting the signal of router Minis.
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Google's not-so-very-secret weapon - Technology - International Herald Tribune
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On the banks of the windswept Columbia River, Google is working on a secret weapon in its quest to dominate the next generation of Internet computing. But it is hard to keep a secret when it is as big as two football fields, with twin cooling towers protruding four stories into the sky.
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Fake Name Generator
This could be a useful writing tool when one, for example, needs the name of a walk-on character.
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Sean Puckett - Random Word Generator
This would be useful for generating names and other words when one is writing fiction, especially fantasy or science fiction
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The generation of "random" words has been a fascination of mine for a while. The term "random" isn't quite appropriate, though, as it doesn't just throw together some consonants and vowels into something that may be pronouncable. Instead, the generator needs to be seeded with a group of words (the more the better) from which it learns what kind of words you want to generate. The generator tears those words apart, learns how they're constructed, then randomly reassembles the components of those words into new ones, driven by the rules by which the original words were made.
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spreeder.com - online speed reading application
This is an interesting speed reading device to play with. I read about this technique many years ago, but never had the tool to try it until now.
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