Infinite depth painting
Have a look at this infinite depth painting. You can zoom in forever. At some point, you realise, you’re back where you’re started. Almost like going around in circles, except that you’re zooming in.
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Google code search hacks
Jason Kottke finds interesting code search hacks, ranging from the WinZip key generation algorithm to programmers who want a new job.
Netflix prize
Netflix has released a sample of its customers’ movie ratings at Netflix Prize. You can download these (700 MB), create an algorithm that rates the training data, run it against the test data, and see if you can get better ratings than their algorithm. If you do, you win $1 million. (Chris Anderson explains why.)
The view from my office
The view from my office is pretty good.
Top 10 bittorrent sites comparison
A comparison of the top 10 bittorrent sites. BTJunkie emerges the winner.
London Test Automation Conference at Google
Presentations and videos from Google’s conference on test automation at London. I was at the event, and learned a lot.
Where you host determines your page rank on Google
Google’s dirty little secret talks about how Google determines whether your site appears on top for a search depending on whether you and the searcher are in the same geography or not. So if your server is in Kazakhstan, expect fewer hits.