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Itsu has a goldfinger: viral marketing in the face of espionage
I was in Piccadilly last night and happened to pass the Itsu sushi bar that former Russian spy Alexander Litvenenko visited prior to his death of polonium-210 poisoning. (Full timeline of the story and investigation are available here from the BBC.) Given that the exact mechanism of poison delivery [...]
Blog holiday
Work on this blog has been temporarily halted due to my holiday. Please feel free to browse and do leave comments, requests, concerns and suggestions. I will be happy to respond to them when we re-open on the 22nd of November. Thank you for your custom.[...]
Searching: then and now
Let’s talk about information retrieval algorithms. I’ve been comparing search engines, looking for something suitable for a large amount of unstructured data from a lot of repositories. Now, option 1 says it operates on the probabilistic model of information retrieval (a description of t[...]