Top 500 passwords

Some interesting data from Mark Burnett on 10,000 Top Passwords:

• 4.7% of users have the password password;
• 8.5% have the passwords password or 123456;
• 9.8% have the passwords password, 123456 or 12345678;
• 14% have a password from the top 10 passwords
• 40% have a password from the top 100 passwords
• 79% have a password from the top 500 passwords
• 91% have a password from the top 1000 passwords

The top 500 passwords as a tag cloud:

JavaScript Performance

I have not blogged for a while now, but this presentation about performance from SXSW 2012 really caught my eye today, especially the test cases.

SXSW 2012 JavaScript MythBusters

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XWiki Seminar'10

The XWikiers have spent last week at the Iasi office to celebrate the 6th anniversary of the company. This was the perfect opportunity for the team to bond and brainstorm about ways of making XWiki better.
Seminar sessions included updates from our different teams: marketing, research (congrats guys for wining the Compatible project bid), client projects, platform, support and tech.
The "Easy XWiki" brainstorming session was all about improving the user experience, while interacting with any of the faces of the product: Public Website, CMS, Simple Wiki, Advanced Enterprise Wiki, Dev Platform, Admin System. Result: a lot of jira issues opened for our ideas.
The week was not all work and no play. Mountain trip the weekend before the seminar to the Red Lake, a city quest and a Casino Party organized by the Iasi team.

Dan was our blackjack croupier ...

while Ludo was playing an important hand at poker.

We had fun and I am looking forward to our next big reunion.
Meanwhile: Happy anniversary, XWiki!

Tradition

The XWiki tradition says you have to get a customized cake on your birthday. The guys made the most of my Apple affinity this year and got me the one and only edition of the ICake:



My friends' tradition says your present must be "special" in every way: from carefully packing the items so that the birthday girl does not loose the trill of not knowing what the hell is inside, to the present itself. It must always include something one would never use in public, but would make a great centerpiece. Previous items included a baseball bat with one's brother name on it (to be used in cases of major necessity :-)) cleverly packed in a hammer-like box.
This year made no exception and my special present came wrapped up in a garbage sac:


It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a telephone!


Other special items in this year's sac: a Jackie Chan image cut from a magazine just for me (BTW Chuck Norris still kicks Jackie Chan's ass), a very fluffy fan which I fear will come in handy soon in July. Bonus: Audrey Hepburn for my wall.

Notes on a Standard: Unicode

More homework for the "Ontology" class. The title was inspired by "Notes on a Scandal", the 2006 drama starring Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench :-).

Notes on a Standard: Unicode

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A Survey on Unsupervised Graph-based Word Sense Disambiguation

My assignment for the Natural Language Ontology class was not easy: write a paper report about an article presented at Cicling 2010. We had to "blindly" choose our paper while reading only the available abstracts, but I made my choice wisely (or just had a bit of luck ;)) since I picked one of the awarded articles: An Experimental Study on Unsupervised Graph-based Word Sense Disambiguation, by George Tsatsaronis, Iraklis Varlamis, Kjetil Nørvåg.
I did not stick only to the paper above, but made a comparison with the work done by Sinha, R., Mihalcea, R. in their paper Unsupervised graph-based word
sense disambiguation using measures of semantic similarity.
Here is the paper report and the short presentation I gave to my Computational Linguistics colleagues yesterday:

A Survey on Unsupervised Graph-based Word Sense Disambiguation

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PS: Google Books already published most of the Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing proceedings.

The Dutch Spring Break

I loved the tulips, the North Sea beach, the Saturday afternoon in Utrecht and the view over Rotterdam from the Euromast tower. I know I am not being fair, but I hated the weather.