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Programming Work

I have been posting less on my Social Technology and other sites recently, because I have been doing some serious programming.  I am writing page generators and editors in Pyth0n, to support a large number of web pages which have … Continue reading

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Limiting Public Disclosure

If there is going to be a business venture based on advanced social technology, we must consider the question of public disclosure. If the venture is to be successful, not too much should be disclosed up front to the general public. Continue reading

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A Possible Business Venture

I would like to refer readers to a new post on the Facebook discussion group Advanced Social Technology for the Entrepreneur, called A Possible Business Venture.  It may be seen at http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=336&uid=125926210758491

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Invalid Comparison Algorithm Produces Bad Suggestions

StumbleUpon “Suggested People” or “People You Might Know” is not really useful because it is not normalized (in the mathematical sense). As it works now, you get suggestions about people who have something in common with you — because they have stumbled a lot and have lots of favorites. By the laws of chance someone with a vast number of favorites will share a lot of them with you. What you should see instead are people who have a lot of favorites that you have, relative to the total number they have. A comparison algorithm should try to predict the probability of the two people having similar page-favorite profiles, i.e. the probability they are actually alike and will like the same pages. Continue reading

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Some Work In Progress

diverse projects include three online novels, about a social tech missionary organization, about a connected college – sequel to Social Tech High, and about world language projects, constructed language projects — I am using Python imaging libraries, suggest aggdraw under Linux and recommend wubi also suggest StumbleUpon Continue reading

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I hope that means what I think it means.  I did try to learn some Russian once, but I didn’t learn very much and it hasn’t stayed with me.  I never did learn Cyrillic.  So I am trusting that Google … Continue reading

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Working on Before and After Animation

working to produce animation of transformation of social network with good social tech tool Continue reading

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Illustrate for Ad Revenue

I have many web pages and wish them illustrated, perhaps with design changes.  I am interested in various kinds of illustration, artwork, diagrams, models, flash, animations.  In return I am offering ALL of the ad revenue from these pages for … Continue reading

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About StumbleUpon-like Algorithms

I haven’t figured out or found on the net exactly what algorithms StumbleUpon uses, but I have found over the years that the correct measure for the similarity of two lists of things, e.g. websites two people liked, is the … Continue reading

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Appearance Changes

You may notice appearance changes, if I keep them in place.  I have been experimenting with different themes and with different bookmarking options.  I have trouble getting the latter to work.  Will let you know.

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