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Introduction: Iain noticed that hunch.net had zero width divs hiding spammy URLs. Some investigation reveals that the wordpress version being used (2.0.3) had security flaws. I’ve upgraded to the latest, rotated passwords, and removed the spammy URLs. I don’t believe any content was lost. You can check your own and other sites for a similar problem by greping for “width:0″ or “width: 0″ in the delivered html source.
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Introduction: Iain noticed that hunch.net had zero width divs hiding spammy URLs. Some investigation reveals that the wordpress version being used (2.0.3) had security flaws. I’ve upgraded to the latest, rotated passwords, and removed the spammy URLs. I don’t believe any content was lost. You can check your own and other sites for a similar problem by greping for “width:0″ or “width: 0″ in the delivered html source.
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Introduction: Hunch.net has shifted to a new server, and wordpress has been updated to the latest version. If anyone notices difficulties associated with this, please comment. (Note that DNS updates can take awhile so the shift may not yet be complete.) More generally, this is a good time to ask for suggestions. What would make this blog more useful?
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Introduction: Several people have had difficulty with comments which seem to have an allowed language significantly poorer than posts. The set of allowed html tags has been increased and the markdown filter has been put in place to try to make commenting easier. I’ll put some examples into the comments of this post.
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Introduction: Andrej Bauer has setup a Mathematics and Computation Blog. As a first step he has tried to address the persistent and annoying problem of math on the web. As a basic tool for precisely stating and transfering understanding of technical subjects, mathematics is very necessary. Despite this necessity, every mechanism for expressing mathematics on the web seems unnaturally clumsy. Here are some of the methods and their drawbacks: MathML This was supposed to be the answer, but it has two severe drawbacks: “Internet Explorer” doesn’t read it and the language is an example of push-XML-to-the-limit which no one would ever consider writing in. (In contrast, html is easy to write in.) It’s also very annoying that math fonts must be installed independent of the browser, even for mozilla based browsers. Create inline images. This has several big drawbacks: font size is fixed for all viewers, you can’t cut & paste inside the images, and you can’t hyperlink from (say) symbol to de
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Introduction: Iain noticed that hunch.net had zero width divs hiding spammy URLs. Some investigation reveals that the wordpress version being used (2.0.3) had security flaws. I’ve upgraded to the latest, rotated passwords, and removed the spammy URLs. I don’t believe any content was lost. You can check your own and other sites for a similar problem by greping for “width:0″ or “width: 0″ in the delivered html source.
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Introduction: Several people have had difficulty with comments which seem to have an allowed language significantly poorer than posts. The set of allowed html tags has been increased and the markdown filter has been put in place to try to make commenting easier. I’ll put some examples into the comments of this post.
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Introduction: At the last ICML , Tom Dietterich asked me to look into systems for commenting on papers. I’ve been slow getting to this, but it’s relevant now. The essential observation is that we now have many tools for online collaboration, but they are not yet much used in academic research. If we can find the right way to use them, then perhaps great things might happen, with extra kudos to the first conference that manages to really create an online community. Various conferences have been poking at this. For example, UAI has setup a wiki , COLT has started using Joomla , with some dynamic content, and AAAI has been setting up a “ student blog “. Similarly, Dinoj Surendran setup a twiki for the Chicago Machine Learning Summer School , which was quite useful for coordinating events and other things. I believe the most important thing is a willingness to experiment. A good place to start seems to be enhancing existing conference websites. For example, the ICML 2007 papers pag
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Introduction: The hunch.net server has been updated. I’ve taken the opportunity to upgrade the version of wordpress which caused cascading changes. Old threaded comments are now flattened. The system we used to use ( Brian’s threaded comments ) appears incompatible with the new threading system built into wordpress. I haven’t yet figured out a workaround. I setup a feedburner account . I added an RSS aggregator for both Machine Learning and other research blogs that I like to follow. This is something that I’ve wanted to do for awhile. Many other minor changes in font and format, with some help from Alina . If you have any suggestions for site tweaks, please speak up.
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Introduction: Hunch.net has shifted to a new server, and wordpress has been updated to the latest version. If anyone notices difficulties associated with this, please comment. (Note that DNS updates can take awhile so the shift may not yet be complete.) More generally, this is a good time to ask for suggestions. What would make this blog more useful?
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