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Comment Boosting (Score 1) 804

by ta_relax on Friday October 19, 2007 @04:47PM (#21047911) Attached to: Evolution and the 'Wisdom of Crowds'

It is well known that combining weak classifiers makes a good one. The prediction markets maybe if we stretch Wikipedia goes in that direction. I am not sure about evolution part though.

Just my 2 cents.

KDE 4.0 Beta 1 Released 249

Posted by Zonk on Thursday August 02, 2007 @05:06PM from the and-they-are-just-giving-it-away-this-time dept.

dbhost writes "Along with this morning's cup of coffee and log reviews, I discovered that the KDE team is moving forward with a long awaited beta release of KDE 4.0 beta release of KDE 4.0. The most interesting item I found in the notes is that the file manager in KDE is being separated from Konqueror into a component called Dolphin. Also, according to the announcement, konsole has been treated to a number of improvements such as split view, and history highlighting."

Feed Linux.com: Academia's Open Access movement mirrors FOSS community (linux.com)

From feed by lcfeed on Thursday August 02, 2007 @04:52PM

Free and open source software (FOSS) has roots in the ideals of academic freedom and the unimpeded exchange of information. In the last five years, the concepts have come full circle, with FOSS serving as a model for Open Access (OA), a movement within academia to promote unrestricted access to scholarly material for both researchers and the general public.

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