Introduction In previous posts I have discussed general issues regarding parallel MCMC and examined in detail parallel Monte Carlo on a multicore laptop. In those posts I used the C programming language in conjunction with the MPI parallel library in order to illustrate the concepts. In this post I want to take the example from […]
Introduction In previous posts I have discussed general issues regarding parallel MCMC and examined in detail parallel Monte Carlo on a multicore laptop. In those posts I used the C programming language in conjunction with the MPI parallel library in order to illustrate the concepts. In this post I want to take the example from […]
Currently, as I've mentioned in previous posts, beaches are a strangely under-served segment of the local search space. Searches on Google and Bing for beaches are fielded by entities such as resorts and restaurants that happen to be matches for...
[I work at Microsoft where I work on projects that drive data quality in our local search experiences on Bing and other clients.] Most of the civilized world, by this time, has heard about Apple's fumble with their new mapping...
We will soon be embarking on a short trip to Hawai'i. Naturally, I'm turning to search engines to find out about the best beaches to go to. However, it turns out that this simple problem - where to go on...
I very much like Google's visual presentation of certain answers to local search queries that involve regions of space. 'Pittsburgh' '98115' 'Fife'
I'm late to this, but it is certainly worth posting. A team of researchers at CMU have been working on mining foursquare checkin data to determine behaviourally defined neighborhoods ('livehoods'). They have put together a site - livehoods.org - which...
A colleague brought to my attention a post on the influential search blog Search Engine Land which makes claims about the quality of local data found on search engines and local verticals: Yellow Pages Sites Beat Google In Local Data...
