The Deus Ex 3 demonstration, blow-by-blow : PC Gamer : big thumbs-up for ‘Deus Ex: Human Revolution’. I’m looking forward to it
(tags: deus-x games xbox previews)We’re Back… so long MongoDB! · Blue74 : MongoDB war story — records going missing, eek
(tags: mongodb mysql nosql rant stability beta)Hadoop and the fight against shape-shifting spam : Yahoo! anti-spam engineers talk about their extensive use of Hadoop and scale
(tags: hadoop yahoo anti-spam filtering)Petit: Log Analysis : log analyzer; removes common strings and patterns from log files, identifying outliers and hapaxen as “interesting”. also does charting of frequencies etc.
(tags: logs logging analysis loganalysis syslog tools)self-replicating configuration in Conway’s Game Of Life created : The “spaceship” configuration replicates in 33699586 generations, using 2 construction arms and a volley of gliders circulating between them
(tags: via:newscientist game-of-life life cellular-automata gliders self-replicating)