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Getting rained out in a brainstorm
In a meeting yesterday, somebody on the IRC shared links to “Re-identification of home addresses from spatial locations anonymized by Gaussian skew” and “Bregman divergences in the (m x k)-partitioning problem“, from Science Digest. Sez the abstract of the latter, … Continue reading
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Tagged "Bregman divergences", "Dean Landsman", "Jonathan Zittrain", "Science Digest", Berkman, Berkman Center, brainstorm, jz, math, partitioning, Science, statistics, wdbs, wfxc, zittrain
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The madness of man
(This post began as a response to this comment by Julian Bond, in response to this post about Mad Men. When it got too long I decided to move it here.) Smoking and drinking were standard back then. “Widespread” doesn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Future, Health, Ideas, Life, News, Past, problems
Tagged "cigarette manufacture", "common sense", "Julian Bond", "Mad Men", adenoids, advertising, aging, agriculture, circumcision, creative, drinking, education, fashion, foreskin, industry, IQ, Science, smoke, smoking, sopranos, speenectomy, spleen, tattoos, tobacco, tonsils, VoidStar
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