Went to see I, Robot yesterday. It's definitely a fun summer movie, but not much more than that. Well, I still do have a couple of thoughts, of course. Firstly, I find it highly unlikely that people will have so much faith in robots as they do in the movie. My mom's even afraid of moving her iBook; homehow I doubt humans will ever be able to trust machines. Secondly, I found it interesting that they hadn't considered the legal status of robots, although that's probably because they became sentient rather suddenly... Thirdly, a note to massive (artifiically) intelligent glowing spheres that try to take over the world: stay away from a centralized model, use P2P or swarms (might make it a tab bit harder for Will Smith types to shut you down).
Yitz suggested that I add an RSS reader to IlohaMail. I don't really use RSS readers myself, but that's probably because I'm rather old fashioned, and seeing how it's not an established webmail feature, it might be a chance to get ahead of the curve. Only concern I have is scalability/performance. I'm guessing that fetching RSS feeds can be rather slow, so doing it in realtime is out of the question (real time as in user logs in, checks for feeds, go fetch feeds, and display). The other option is to use a background process, but then what happens if someone registers a bunch of feeds but never reads them? One possibility might be to use a delaying tactic, where requests are made to the background process when the user logs in, and hope that by the time the user finishes reading email and gets to the RSS feeds, they've already been fetched. MagPie RSS seems like a pretty good PHP-based RSS fetcher thinggy. Also, apparently RSS feed requests look like DoS attacks (via Slashdot).
I'm giving my presentation to people at work tomorrow. The PowerPoint is done, but it still needs some ironing out... and some practice. My main aim tomorrow it to see roughly how long the presentation lasts, and add/remove (likely the latter) as necessary. My main concern, though, is whether or not the material is good enough. I have this nagging fear that people are going to hear what I have to say and think I'm just an idiot. I think part of it is the fact that the optimization techniques I've come up with are rather unusual, and I'm not sure if it's because it's new and ingenious, or if it's because they're really dumb or ineffective. Well, not ineffective since it worked for IlohaMail, but perhaps impractical is more the word.
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