X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Movie Review)

I watched X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie at the local IMAX theater. I have long been a fan of X-Men and Weapon X series, so I had pretty high expectations for this movie. Learning that one of my favorite comic book characters, Deadpool, was going to be in this movie gave me some hope that he [...]

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San Diego Super Heroes

A few weeks ago, I came across a video via AllahPundit about Cincinnati’s masked super hero. Little did I know, San Diego has it’s own league of super heroes led by Mr. Xtreme.
After a bit of research, it appears this San Diego crime fighting group has been active for over a year. The first report [...]

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Creating a FAST ESP entity blacklist

FAST ESP is a robust enterprise search platform that I’ve worked with and administer for a couple of internal projects. One of our requests for the FAST contractors was asking how we could fix the entity extraction algorithm to create a more accurate extraction.
The platform uses a complex method to determine and extract companies, persons, [...]

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