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September 2012 Blog Posts (4)
Pandora and Tom Conrad (CTO)
Have you ever wondered how Pandora works? Listen to this Swampcast interview with Tom Conrad, CTO as he explains Pandora's music genome project.
Added by Michael Levin on September 29, 2012 at 10:30am — No Comments
Nighthacking (via Stephen Chin)
Added by Michael Levin on September 25, 2012 at 2:58pm — No Comments
Omni Fluent, a free computational linguistics app
Here's an app you'll like - it's called Omni Fluent and…
Added by Michael Levin on September 25, 2012 at 11:01am — No Comments
Netbeans in Action
Netbeans is a free integrated development environment and it's not just for Java! You can use it with C++, PHP, JavaScript and Groovy. Check out some of the incredibly cool projects coded using Netbeans…
Added by Michael Levin on September 25, 2012 at 8:14am — No Comments
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