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UCI’s School of Informaiton & Computer Science made Slashdot today for their research in topic modeling. Organizing a large number of texts in such a way that mining the collection for useful information can be done effeciently is a challenging task. Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images has been on my Amazon Wish […]

Thanks to Mike Marquez for pointing out to me that SysAdmin Day is tomorrow, July 28. Happy SysAdmin Day to Eric of MSA, Andrew of ISM, Jay of Opt3, the people at our co-lo, and to everyone else that is “In the Trenches (IT).” When the shit hits the fan, technically speaking, we appreciate the […]

A data center in Downtown Los Angeles may boast about the multiple backup power generators they possess, but is it enough to deal with power problems that span the whole city for multiple days? Although problem scenarios may seem farfetched when an information architecture is functioning normally, problems do occur as exemplified by the extended […]

Time has been scarce these past few weeks, and this week in particular has been the busiest. Recovery time from work has been compressed to approximately three hours a day. Each work day this week has started at approximately 6:30am. At that time, a 1.5-hour commute to Irvine begins. Then, approximately seven to nine hours […]