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Links for August 4th :

• Guacamole VNC – VNC implemented on top of HTML5 on the browser side. Java on the server side.
• Not Your Father’s Von Neumann Machine: A Crash Course in Modern Hardware –
• Shadow Government Statistics : Home Page –
• Rapid wireframe sketching in Google Docs – Official Google Docs Blog –
• Detecting influenza outbreaks by analyzing Twitter messages –
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
• Ksplice " Building Filesystems the Way You Build Web Apps – System … –
• OSX 10.6.1 SnowLeopard on the eee 1000HE – Part 1 (Updated) | technow.cc –

Links for May 26th :

• St. Louis Fed: How to devalue your currency –
• Welcome to VoltDB | VoltDB – May is nearly over. It's time for yet another new webscale database system.
• Cognitive Biases – A Visual Study Guide by the Royal Society of Account Planning –
• WARNING: American Express fails miserably at basic security. –
• pandas – Project Hosting on Google Code – pandas is a python package providing convenient data structures for time series, cross-sectional, or any other form of “labeled” data, with tools for building statistical and econometric models.

Links for May 21st :

• MonoDroid – Mono for Android Beta Program – Miguel de Icaza – Frikking sweet. Full dynamic language runtime support included.
• Debunking Michael Lewis’ Subprime Short Hagiography « naked capitalism –
• The Early Bird Gets the Worm – A whole lotta calculus and greeks to prove that kids are expensive. Economists need better things to study.
• Income splitting for the ethically shady – Hey – you too can split your income with your spouse. Just divorce them. This does not seem like a winning plan.
• Ontario has same Deficit as California? –

Links for May 17th :

• Land Registry Office Locations – Ontario.ca – Land Registry Office has all housing sale prices
• [Risk Magazine, Overhaus] Himalaya Options.pdf (application/pdf Object) – Complex equity derivatives – Mountain options pricing
• How to check Whether your Mac has the 32-bit EFI or 64-bit EFI –
• Gambling with Other People’s Money | Mercatus –
• Programming with Judy: C LanguageJudy Version 4.0 –
• CRF++: Yet Another CRF toolkit – CRF++ is a simple, customizable, and open source implementation of Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) for segmenting/labeling sequential data. CRF++ is designed for generic purpose and will be applied to a variety of NLP tasks, such as Named Entity Recognition, Information Extraction and Text Chunking.

Links for May 13th :

• The American Conservative — The Trouble With T-Bills –
• SQL Server WAL logging – a mess of confusion – Completely confusing<br /> <br /> "This log record must be written to disk before the associated dirty page is flushed from the buffer cache to disk. If the dirty page is flushed before the log record is written, the dirty page creates a modification on the disk that cannot be rolled back if the server fails before the log record is written to disk. SQL Server has logic that prevents a dirty page from being flushed before the associated log record is written. Log records are written to disk when the transactions are committed."
• Monthly Reports – Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) – R303a has MBS activity by year. up up and away!
• Things UNIX can do atomically — Crowley Code! –
• C: The Complete Nonsense – Herbert Schildt's C: The Complete Reference – awful C reference.

Links for May 12th :

• The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook –
• May 10, 2010 Is Sovereign Debt Crisis Contained to Subprime? Peter Schiff 321gold …inc2 …s – Peter Schiff on sovereign debt problem becoming contagion
• Gentoo Linux Documentation — HOWTO fix -fPIC errors – GCC's "-fPIC" compiler notes. Position independant code isn't the default. It *is* 2010 isn't it? Somebody shoot me.
• An inside look at 573,948 Toronto homes – Yourhome.ca –
• High Frequency Trading and Sub-Penny Quotes | High Frequency Trading Review – Subpenny pricing and HFT