Karl Reinsch's Blog

WF Migration Kit CTP 1 Released

Karl W. Reinsch — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:12:04 +0000

The first Community Technology Preview (CTP) for the WF Migration Kit has been released, for migrating to the upcoming new Windows Workflow Foundation. Consider trying the tool if you are a WF3 user who is looking to migrate your workflows to WF4. Migrators are included for a number of the WF3 out-of-the-box activities. There is also [...] Related posts:

Datamining Facebook

Karl W. Reinsch — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:08:14 +0000

Just a quick post of two links about datamining Facebook: Pete Warden’s post: How to split up the US Marshall Kirkpatrick’s post: The Man Who Looked Into Facebook’s Soul Pete’s divisions of the US are interesting to consider. (I haven’t read all the commentary yet, but it’s clear that Mr. Warden is needing some pop culture data to help [...] Related posts:

Microsoft’s Rule Engines

Karl W. Reinsch — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:51:04 +0000

I am often asked to describe the rule engines that Microsoft ships. (The first question being: “Microsoft has rule engines?”) This question frequently comes from folks who know rules, but don’t know .NET. This post is specifically written to answer the question. Should the offerings change in the future, I will update this post [...] Related posts:

October Rules Fest 2009 & 2010

Karl W. Reinsch — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:05:55 +0000

Cheers to James Owen for his stewardship of the October Rules Fest for 2008 and 2009. I was only able to attend a small portion of the 2009 conference, but those portions were quite good. The sign of a healthy conference is one where attendees return as presenters and this year had a few such [...] Related posts:

Datamining The Government

Karl W. Reinsch — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:59:46 +0000

The article is a bit old now (June 2009), but Wired had an interesting interview with Vivek Kundra about Data.gov. This is the usual Web 2.0 pitch about making data transparent and available and hoping that crowdsourcing will magically create useful things. I will however admit to having been intrigued by the concept of one of [...] Related posts:

Datamining Games

Karl W. Reinsch — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:50:55 +0000

The rise of the online always-on videogame opens a new world of stat tracking. The recent changes is this area are well beyond simple high score boards or achievements/trophies. For example, consider the article “You Are Being Watched” from a recent issue of the Official Xbox Magazine. The article details the datamining that Bungie is [...] Related posts:

StarCraft AI Competition At AIIDE 2010

Karl W. Reinsch — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:35:41 +0000

Spotted on Kotaku, the AIIDE (Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment) 2010 conference will be hosting a StarCraft AI competition. Looking forward to the results. Related posts:October Rules Fest 2009 & 2010 Mario Bros. AI Competition Results A Computer That Plays Pitfall Related posts:

The Gaming Brain

Karl W. Reinsch — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:57:34 +0000

Scientific American’s online edition has an article touching on the study I previously blogged in which videogames were observed to improve vision. The article is a nice contrast to much of the game journalism coverage of the research, and gives me an opportunity to briefly revisit this topic. Obviously, we know that games can teach [...] Related posts:

The Problem Of Electronic Page Numbers

Karl W. Reinsch — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:44:43 +0000

A nice aside in Steven Johnson’s recent review of the new Kindle: 6. No page numbers! They have “location” numbers instead, because pages don’t really exist in the Kindle, given that you can resize the type with two quick taps on the keyboard. There’s a small question here about how you cite a passage from a [...] Related posts:

Books and more books and no time to read

Search Box Candor

Karl W. Reinsch — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:40:15 +0000

It is becoming increasing clear that we don’t lie to search engines. As the AOL search data scandal revealed, you can give away your identity simply through egosurfing. People ask all sorts of questions to search engines. And the autocomplete features recently added to the search boxes at Google and Bing are quite revealing about [...] Related posts:

“an extra dollar for fact-checking”