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Programming

IBM Releases Open Source Machine Learning Compiler 146

sheepweevil writes "IBM just released Milepost GCC, 'the world's first open source machine learning compiler.' The compiler analyses the software and determines which code optimizations will be most effective during compilation using machine learning techniques. Experiments carried out with the compiler achieved an average 18% performance improvement. The compiler is expected to significantly reduce time-to-market of new software, because lengthy manual optimization can now be carried out by the compiler. A new code tuning website has been launched to coincide with the compiler release. The website features collaborative performance tuning and sharing of interesting optimization cases."
Education

HTML Tags For Academic Printing? 338

meketrefi writes "It's been quite a while since I got interested in the idea of using html (instead of .doc. or .odf) as a standard for saving documents — including the more official ones like academic papers. The problem is using HTML to create pages with a stable size that would deal with bibliographical references, page breaks, different printers, etc. Does anyone think it is possible to develop a decent tag like 'div,' but called 'page,' specially for this? Something that would make no use of CSS? Maybe something with attributes as follows: {page size="A4" borders="2.5cm,2.5cm,2cm,2cm" page_numbering="bottomleft,startfrom0"} — You get the idea... { /page} I guess you would not be able to tell when the page would be full, so the browser would have to be in charge of breaking the content into multiple pages when needed. Bibliographical references would probably need a special tag as well, positioned inside the tag ..." Is this such a crazy idea? What would you advise?
Media

Submission + - Russian North Pole photos faked (finland.fi)

An anonymous reader writes: Story up on Google News: http://news.google.com/news?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&tab= wn&ncl=1119206286&hl=en Finnish paper claims Reuters used Titanic film shot 9.8.2007 at 13:00 http://newsroom.finland.fi/stt/showarticle.asp?int NWSAID=16424&group=General Reuters regrets misleading caption of sub clip 10.8.2007 at 7:25 http://newsroom.finland.fi/stt/showarticle.asp?int NWSAID=16431&group=General

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