Interestingness in GA's and Parallel Machine Learning

Via the IlliGAL blog, this interesting application of GA's and flickr "interestingness" as a helping hand in the objective function.
A small note on parallel machine learning problems. I like the potential for using MapReduce suggested in the discussion.

Many Eyes

IBM Many Eyes project for collaborating on interpreting data via visualizations! Great Idea!
Thanks O'Reilly Radar.