Big Data And Machine Learning Engineer At State, London, Uk

building an ambitious big new site in the social web area, with plenty of technology challenges at the core. Need a software engineer who can work on the machine learning, data mining and recommendation aspects.

Big Data and Machine Learning Engineer at State, London, UK

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Cctvs In The Uk: One Crime Solved Per 1,000 Cameras

Apropos this morning's Guardian column on the ineffectiveness of CCTV as deterrent to crime, here's Scotland Yard's study on the use of CCTVs in forensic crime-solving, which concluded that only one crime was solved per 1,000 CCTVs. The UK government … Continue reading →

CCTVs in the UK: one crime solved per 1,000 cameras

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Wikileaks: Assange bail hearing in UK today, statement from jail

(PHOTO contributed to the Boing Boing Flickr pool by BB reader Mark Burban, aka pixelwhip.) • Lawyers for Julian Assange will today attempt to gain bail for the Wikileaks founder, who is currently being held in a UK prison. • Anonymous may target UK websites if bail is denied. • Assange issued a statement from jail by way of his mother, which said in part, "We now know that Visa, Mastercard and Paypal are instruments of US foreign policy. It's not something we knew before." • Assange's attorney: "We have heard from the Swedish authorities that there has been a secretly impaneled grand jury in Alexandria (Virginia)."...

Wikileaks: Assange bail hearing in UK today, statement from jail

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UK supergroup records 4'33", hopes to top Xmas charts

A UK supergroup has recorded a cover of 4'33", John Cage's infamous "silent" composition. They're hoping to take their four minutes and thirty three seconds' worth of breathing noises, soft shuffling, and chair creaks to the top of the UK pop music charts this Christmas -- and more importantly, they're hoping to beat out whatever awful earworm the X-Factor TV programme foists on the nation. I say best of British luck to them!

Later today, Pete Doherty, the Kooks, Billy Bragg, Imogen Heap, Orbital and many more will gather in a London studio, collaborating in a bid for this year's Christmas No 1. But the strangest bit is not the team-up: it's that they are not recording a single note. The ad hoc supergroup is assembling in support of Cage Against the Machine, a charity campaign to take John Cage's infamous 4'33" - a composition of pure silence - to the top of the Yuletide charts.

The campaign has been gathering momentum over the past couple of months, winning celebrity endorsements, amused press coverage and around 60,000 Facebook fans. Their inspiration is obvious: last year's successful push to raise Rage Against the Machine's Killing In the Name, released in 1992, over X Factor winner Joe McElderry's The Climb. In 2010, instead of loosing a profanity-laden rap-rock tirade on the British public, Cage Against the Machine organisers want to unfurl the serene sound of silence, taking on whoever wins X Factor next week. The plan recalls a similar star-studded silence for this year's Remembrance Day.

Cage Against the Machine: pop stars to stage silent X Factor protest (via Making Light)

 

• Boing Boing: Video of John Cage on a 1960 game show
• John Cage's 639-year long song has started to play - Boing Boing

UK supergroup records 4'33", hopes to top Xmas charts

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Analytics Manager at Opera Solutions, London, UK and Paris, France

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Opera Solutions is a new generation consulting firm that melds the best of human intelligence and powerful, technology-driven tools into a unique approach that delivers rapid and significant profit improvement to our clients.

Analytics Manager at Opera Solutions, London, UK and Paris, France

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