Site Rewrite

From Bricowiki

Leave CMS's behind and finally write some brico code

Right..see 'Is this a site re-write' below

"Innovation is a new element introduced in the network which changes, even if momentarily, the costs of transactions between at least two actors, elements or nodes, in the network."

Main Questions

# What do you want the site to do?

The human ear is very good at picking out a single conversation in a room and focusing on it. In classical computer theory this is called the 'Cocktail Party Problem'. Imagine that the Internet is now this room. How can we filter and tune into certain things.? This is an interesting question

The software will not focus on the subjective question of 'what' to focus on but the question of how to group or cluster similar information together to extract features from data. Some future UI can present an interface to the end user e.g I want to search for 'brico <insert>' -> Enter

The central aim is to take a stream of "noise" or "data", a cacophony of sounds as it were and separate it without any prior knowledge of what the data or noise is

# Why are you doing this

This site rewrite has been here for some time and no-one commented on anything. People are lazy , who knows ?...anyway, I write software so vamos la

# How will it work?

Development will start in January 2009 using an agile development method (scrum). Currently there is only one developer on the project (me) and it would be nice if others want to join in but if not that is cool too. I am scratching an itch. A prototype will be working by mid 2009

# Is this a site re-write

No! I am too lazy and too tired to start a new wiki page so it goes here. If you do not like it tough shit

# What will it be written in

It will use Python. Maybe it will just be some more code out there on the intartubes, maybe it will be part of the site rewrite..who knows?

# Licence

GPL

# More details

The algorithm will use Non-Negative Matrix Factorization to extract 'feature sets'. If you want more info on this look up matrix multiplication on Google and be aware that the ultimate goal is to factorize the final matrix. Understand now?

# Implementation

Best go here then