Ridicilious mark up by indonesian software distributor

Recently i was evaluating a very nice looking visual mining software named Advizor.
The software allows a very visual manipulation of a large data set, it doesn’t provide the deep analysis afforded by SAS data mining tool, or the more automatic approach by SPSS PASW modeler,
but it greatly support business user with some interest in data [...]

Predictive algorithm and what’s so great about the Netflix Prize

Well, on the surface, nothing much. But it represent increasing interest on a very promising field.
It’s million dollar prize for computer expert and statistician that can improve a set of algorithm (a set of rules to be executed by computer).
Netflix, the companies who pay for this $1 million reward, is a movie rental company in [...]

Why does being a good boss is so difficult?

Because being a bad one is so easy
Ok first, how do you become a good boss?