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October 2006

Travel Time & Waste

by Pete Abilla on October 31, 2006

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn There are 3 types of activities, 2 of which produce waste: Steps that definitely create value. Steps that create no value, but are necessary given the current state of the system. Steps that create no value and can be eliminated. (2) & (3) [...]

Muay Thai Workout

by Pete Abilla on October 31, 2006

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn I’m starting my Muay Thai workout on Wednesday. I have a heavy bag and speed bag at home that I just put together — my wife bought me a really nice bag stand — she’s the best. Here’s my schedule (Monday, Wednesday, & [...]

Jack Welch & The Boston Globe, Final Chapter

by Pete Abilla on October 30, 2006

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Previously in Part 1 and Part 2, we discussed the possibility of Jack Welch acquiring The Boston Globe. We’ve discussed several things Jack might do, if the deal goes through. All of which, has to do with the Profit Tree model, which is [...]

Disambiguating “Google”

by Pete Abilla on October 27, 2006

word sense disambiguation, natural language processing

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn In graduate school, I did a research project in industrial linguistics. My project was to tackle the word-sense disambiguation problem. Basically, words are uttered descriptors, each of which has a context — a sense. For example, the word “bank” can be taken as [...]

Jack Welch & The Boston Globe, Part 2

by Pete Abilla on October 26, 2006

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn This is part 1 of a 3 part series. The other parts can be found here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Previously in Part 1, we discussed the Profit Tree for the newspaper print industry, which is shown below: From the very [...]