Joe Petviashvili

tell me what you're searching for. I'll go out and find it, while you go about your daily work. When I'm done, I'll send you a link to the result page. That's right -- result, singular. Wading through thousands of more...

“ Note that when possible I link to the page containing the link to the actual PDF or PS of the preprint. I prefer this as it gives some context to the paper and avoids possible copyright problems with direct more...

Collective choice systems have been around for a long time. Since at least the birth of democracy in ancient Greece people have made joint decisions about important issues, and since at least the knightly tournaments of the late Middle Age more...

“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

“The absurdly long URL contained the database query used to display the page's data. The SELECT also included a few non-displayed columns such as "social_security_number" and "date_of_birth", and even had several conditionals to make sure that only Active records were more...

Eating your own dog food is the quaint name that we in the computer industry give to the process of actually using your own product.

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...

“The double-click time is sort of the dialog unit of time.”

An internet start-up aims to untangle the web for you by launching a site which aims to analyze and organize all your digital data

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

Amazon's recommendation system. "The first version of similarities was quite popular. But it had a problem, the Harry Potter problem. Oh, yes, Harry Potter. Harry Potter is a runaway bestseller. Kids buy it. Adults buy it. Everyone buys it. So, 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

simply switching the existing Lucene 2.2 JAR for a Lucene 2.3 JAR resulted in speed-ups of 500% in indexing performance

50 times more search requests coming from Apple iPhones than any other mobile handset

I'm forced to ask myself - are these people idiots? Are they being coy? Or have they really never experienced the built-in marketing channel that comes from ranking at the top of the engines for a relevant keyword phrase?