Joe Petviashvili

“We present a framework for automatically enhancing videos of a static scene using a few photographs of the same scene. For example, our system can transfer photographic qualities such as high resolution, high dynamic range and better lighting from the source...

the second significant instance of Facebook Open Sourcing a key infrastructure component "inspired" by Google internals

“The cluster statistics were: * 910 nodes * 4 dual core Xeons @ 2.0ghz per a node * 4 SATA disks per a node * 8G RAM per a node” Reproducing the result yourself on Amazon EC2/S3 = ~ $100k

“A source close to the company tells us that this announcement will be huge because Loopt is working on a location-based ad network of some kind.”

Imagine a time in the future when keychain USB sticks hold petabytes of data and you can download every movie ever made to your cell phone in a matter of seconds. All it takes is one disgruntled Google employee with more...

“DEFENDER of the favicon is a JavaScript remake of Eugene Jarvis' brilliant arcade game Defender written by Mathieu 'p01' Henri and inspired by Scott Schiller's experiment with generated favicons VU meter. The idea was to push the concept of generated more...

single place where you could get all of the information on all of the past State of the Blogosphere (and upcoming State of the Live Web) reports

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

“Bearing this new representation in mind, we can now look at a kilobyte (1024 bytes) as a small bowl of rice.”

We present a study of anonymized data capturing a month of high-level communication activities within the whole of the Microsoft Messenger instant-messaging system. We examine characteristics and patterns that emerge from the collective dynamics of large numbers of people, rather more...