Mathing with Theo

Though this woman doesn’t quite match up with my preconceived notion of what a “Unix user” should look like I quite agree with her sentiment

Not your typical unix user.

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This past weekend I was doing some work on Scroggles, building an automatic spam classifier and post categorizer. The blogging platform that Scroggles! uses runs on php and MySQL. Since building a web based (php) classifier wouldn’t work as well, easily or quickly as a classifier built in R which has many of the machine learning packages readily available, I decided to build something in R that interfaces with the MySQL database. It took some time to figure out how to get everything (R, my server, and MySQL) working together so I thought I would put together a how-to for getting MySQL and R to work together.

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I was reading Guy Kawasaki’s blog “How to change the world” and came across a link to the following site which helps to optimize your webpage for search engines.

After running Scroggles and greentheo through the service I’ve found that there is still work to do! Must continue building and optimizing Scroggles!