The stuff of spy movies #2
The spy-files Hadn’t heard about The Wikileaks Spy Files before today. This post is a follow up on the previous post on surveillance software. Who knows, maybe I have some of that on my computer as I’m typing this. Better…
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The stuff of spy movies #1
Reporters without borders (RSF) have a website on topic: surveillance.rsf.org The topic being malware that can be used to spy on you through your own computer. It is frightening and intriguing at the same time.
Thank you Scott!
I just read this blog post by Scott Hanselman (I’m a phony. Are you?), and it was a bit of a group therapy moment. It’s nice to know that you’re not alone in something!
Graham C10M talk at Shmoocon 2013
This video was mentioned on highscalability.com, so I thought I’d have a look. Knowning this stuff is useful when you’re in the business of delivering large amounts of geographical data to a large amount of clients. C10M = 10 million…
List of cloud GIS platforms
This is work in progress…
Downloading environment data for Denmark
This post is very Denmark-specific. I was annoyed that downloading environmental data from the ministry of the environment was so cumbersome. Long story made short, here are download URLs for environmental data: Dataset URL Kirkebyggelinjer KIRKEBYGGELINJER_SHAPE.zip Skovbyggelinjer SKOVBYGGELINJER_SHAPE.zip Åbeskyttelseslinjer AA_BES_LINJER_SHAPE.zip…
Ordering cheat sheet
Non-strict orders: ≤ The symbol ≤ denotes a generalization of “less than or equal”, and it defines either a partial or total ordering over a set P (in the table below a,b ∈ P): Constraint (Non-strict) partial order (Non-strict) total…
Taking hadoop for a spin
Simple. This works.
How I use Mendeley in my studies
This is how I use the Mendeley system for managing my phd. Mendeley has the ability to full-text search downloaded academic papers, and features for adding notes, tags, keywords and more. The advantage is that I can quickly retrieve a…
Data-parallelism vs Task-parallism
Adapted from an article I found by Googlin’. There are many ways to define this, but simply put: Task parallelism is the simultaneous execution on multiple cores of many different functions across the same or different datasets. Data parallelism (aka…