Tibet Riot

It seems that all the governments and media will do certain degree of censorship. The above figure is just an example. The left one is used in CNN to show that Chinese communist government is trying to overwhelm the riot. The right one shows the original picture. As can be seen, several Tibetan is trying to hurt some innocent people walking by the street.

DaLai only cares about the independence of Tibet but never morn for those innocent Han or Hui people who were killed during the riot. Ridiculous!

Here is one foreigner who is traveling in Lhasa and experienced the riot.
http://kadfly.blogspot.com/

and here is a video took by an Italian to show that those people were attacking an innocent motorcyclist.
http://rapidshare.de/files/38832674/MVI_0483.AVI.html

Also, for those who support "Tibet Independence", please check out the following videos. Tibet will always be part of China.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9QNKB34cJo

Using Samba in Ubuntu

Really simple!

Right click the folder actually has an effect of sharing folders.

All you need is to add a smbuser by the following command:
smbpasswd -a user

and then restart the service by the following command:
sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart

Daily Linux (1) -- FreeNX, remote access, list files

1. Here is a very useful instruction to install FreeNX server on Ubuntu Gusty,

and it works pretty cool! Much much faster than VNC.

2. To list files matches certain pattern in one directory, use the following command:

find . -name "*.c"

This basically find all the c-files in a directory.

dynamic topic models

Recently, I'm pretty interested in topic models.
But this is very difficult to follow.

Instead, I'll read some material about Kalman filtering and Wavelet first.

Learning is endless...

NIPS 08 proceeding available

Here are some interesting paper I'm planning to read or browse.
My biggest concern is how effective is the work. It seems currently most are beautiful with formulas, but can not even beat the simplest method.

It's always human who make the world so complicated.
My belief is "The World is Simple!"


Heterogeneous Component Analysis
Shigeyuki Oba, Motoaki Kawanabe, Klaus-Robert Müller, Shin Ishii

Neural characterization in partially observed populations of spiking neurons
Jonathan Pillow, Peter Latham

Probabilistic Matrix Factorization
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Andriy Mnih

Hidden Common Cause Relations in Relational Learning
Ricardo Silva, Wei Chu, Zoubin Ghahramani

Hierarchical Penalization
Marie Szafranski, Yves Grandvalet, Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux

Learning with Transformation Invariant Kernels
Christian Walder

A Spectral Regularization Framework for Multi-Task Structure Learning
Andreas Argyriou, Charles A. Micchelli, Massimiliano Pontil, Yiming Ying


Supervised Topic Models
David Blei, Jon McAuliffe

Learning Bounds for Domain Adaptation
John Blitzer, Koby Crammer, Alex Kulesza, Fernando Pereira, Jennifer Wortman

Multi-task Gaussian Process Prediction
Edwin Bonilla, Kian Ming Chai, Chris Williams

Automatic Generation of Social Tags for Music Recommendation
Douglas Eck, Paul Lamere, Thierry Bertin-Mahieux, Stephen Green

Kernel Measures of Conditional Dependence
Kenji Fukumizu, Arthur Gretton, Xiaohai Sun, Bernhard Sch??lkopf

What do you see?

A funny joke

狼来了，经过山洞，见兔子面前放台笔记本电脑，噼噼噼的乱敲。 狼说：“兔子！干嘛呢？” “写论文！” 狼想：“世道真变啦，兔子也能写论文？”。 “啥题目？” “论兔子比狼厉害！” “你有病吧？” “你进洞瞧瞧！我收集好多资料！” 狼进洞了，半天没出来。天近黄昏，兔子收拾起笔记本电脑，回山洞了。 洞中一只狮子正在剔牙。 见兔子进来，拍着胸脯狂笑：“早跟你说了，不在乎你写什么题目，什么内容，关键是 ，你导师是谁！