Nat Torkington

Four short links: 5 December 2011

Spatial Search, Exposing Your Phone's Perfidity, School Unconference, and Wikipedia Viz

by | @gnat  | +Nat Torkington  | Comments: 1 |  5 December 2011

  1. VP Trees -- a data structure for fast spatial searching. A form of nearest neighbour, useful for melodies (PDF) and image retrieval (PDF) and poetry. (via Reddit)
  2. iYou -- iTunes plugin to show you all the stuff your phone collects about you.
  3. Bar Camps in Primary Schools -- NZ teacher deploys bar camps among students. Great things happen.
  4. Realtime Wikipedia Edits -- fascinating and hypnotic and inspirational and appalling and irrelevant all at once.

tags: algorithm, cs, education, geo, mobile, privacy, search, visualization, wikipedia

Comments: 1

Chris Spurgeon [ 5 December 2011 01:37 PM]

This irc stream of wikipedia edits is just the best thing EVAR! Thanks gnat!






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