I think that it may be the case by law that the donor cannot select the individual recipient of a donation if the organization wants to retain tax exemption.
Can someone explain the perception that Facebook's IPO was a disaster? Doesn't the fact that the stock has not risen mean that the offering had the correct price?
Thanks for your advice and everybody else's too... I still feel like I may at least give SimpleDB a try by making a new domain for each table and distributing the large tables over multiple domains (my data is amenable to splitting up). I may make two copies of some domains that are split up in different ways so I don't have to query all of the domains associated with a table.
Are JOINs used that often? My thought was that I could export the data to a mysql database for analysis if I needed to do any very demanding crunching.
I've heard that there is too much latency to use EC2 as a host. Certainly xforwarding is not great. Check out the creators of "Friends for Sale": http://omnisio.com/sdforum/siqi-chen
How is the OLPC project "charity" when the governments buy the laptops from OLPC just as they would from Intel? The Economist is ridiculous, drawing false distinctions.
Yeah, maybe I should give this a shot. The problem is that almost all of my college friends are also in grad school, so it would take some serious convincing....if only we didn't love science so much...
Thanks for your response! I'm trying to:
(1) parse questions into the "opening" such as "What is the", and "subject" like "capital of Burkina Faso"?
(2) also looking for similarities between things like "going running" and "going for a jog"
I'm not sure if both of these fall under natural processing... mostly I use python so your first suggestion sounds like a good starting place.