Posted: July 30th, 2009 | Author: Anuradha Uduwage | Filed under: Cycling | Tags: Cycling, Trek | No Comments »
Getting ready for Saturday Tour De Tonka 75 mile bike ride. Did a 30 mile ride starting from my apartment and got into Regional Trail and rode to downtown Minneapolis and came back via same route. It was a good fast ride since pretty much entire route was a flat one. Last week I did a tune up on my Trek and this is the third ride I am doing after the tune and bike sounds excellent
If you would like to check out the ride, here you go, Enjoy
View Ride to Downtown Mpls in a larger map
Posted: July 30th, 2009 | Author: Anuradha Uduwage | Filed under: Microsoft, Tech and CS, Technology | Tags: Microsoft | No Comments »
Day after Microsoft release Bing Search Engine or as they call it decision engine I put it bing to test. Search was ok but I didn’t find it smarter than Google, then I checked the Maps option and it was horrible. But its been few weeks and today I went to bing after I saw its travel option on the television addvertisment. And let me tell you its impressive and I think its one step ahead Google. So this is what I did, I just typed
Bing Search Box
on the search box, and following result shows up as the first result among many others.
Bing Travel Prediction
. I would say up to this stage Google and Bing are neck to neck on this but after you click above option Bing kicks to the next gear like Alberto Contador climb mountains by dancing on his saddle. Yeap, as person who is in the field of HCI and Data Mining, I was very impressed on what I saw in bing. It has predictions on ticket prices such as if they were to stay steady or to go up. Yes it says that
Note that deals are compiled on yesterday’s lowest airfares and can change often.
but its still ahead Google at least on this matter.
Not only that it gives nice graphical representation of the price fluctuation along with the prediction of the price with respect the date.
So, its True that this is no ordinary search engine, but Machine Learning at its best. So if I was Google I would be bit worried about bing. Google as new era technology company had the advantage of learning from all the mistakes made my giants like Microsoft, Yahoo, etc. But I guess for the first time, Microsoft using it potential and capability and thinking out of the box. And the best thing is they are simply try to match everything that Google does where they have been doing it for the past decade. I am not a big Microsoft fan but I have to give props for this to Microsoft, Bravo.
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