Comments on Ero Carrera's blog: Packers, Time and Google Groups

I guess Yoda was a cool Jedi back then already :-p...

2007-11-30T01:44:00.000+01:00

I guess Yoda was a cool Jedi back then already :-p
It's one hit... that's the issue when the dataset is so sparse... any "noise" is significant...

Ero,

Cool research above. However, I don't ...

2007-11-29T18:41:00.000+01:00

Ero,

Cool research above. However, I don't think Yoda Protector was around in 1992 ;)

Keep up the great work, though!

- Jason

The part about fooling Google was very amusing. Y...

2007-11-25T18:10:00.000+01:00

The part about fooling Google was very amusing. You've always got some crazy shit up your sleeve involving statistics, Python, Mathematica, and pretty diagrams.

Interesting entry! :)
There is also one more pr...

2007-11-25T10:15:00.000+01:00

Interesting entry! :)
There is also one more problem, some packers have different versions, that showed up in different moments in time, different versions implement different things.

Using onion routing did cross my mind. That seems ...

2007-11-24T23:35:00.000+01:00

Using onion routing did cross my mind. That seems the way to go to make something more "scalable"... I just wanted to keep it within the one-night-hack range.. I know myself and if I start putting stuff into it I'll be weeks cooking up some monster python script... otoh, it'd be just making the script use the onion proxy right...? ;)
(never used onion myself.. yet)

I guess one can generalize it to more cases only limited by the fact that news postings might not be a representative "space" from which to draw samples for some topics... I guess it's better for some subjects than others. I'd think that for techie stuff is somewhat useful.

Very interesting work. Could this be generalized t...

2007-11-24T23:24:00.000+01:00

Very interesting work. Could this be generalized to include determination of the "first" occurrence of just about topic? Also, did you think about using tor or something akin to a mix or onion routing system to anonymize the sources when executing the script?

I'd love to see this baby in action.

txs