A worthy data mining and privacy guru, Jeff Jonas of IBM (check out his fine blog), adds this humorous take: “Data Mining, noun, 1. Torturing data until it confesses … and if you torture it enough, it will confess to anything.” Therein lies the conundrum for privacy advocates Yo-Duh on Son of Total Information Awareness
Read more →1> Global energy supply. Why? Far too many news stories about solar panel breakthroughs and far too much money on the table. By extension, hydrogen- or battery-storage etc. electrical cars, and decentralized electrical grids. Assuming that we get the 20 years it takes to make this happen globally without civilization collapsing, this is a cooked [...]
Read more →Yeah. I know. But you spend your days thinking about global poverty and starvation, digital identity management and how, if we screw up, we get digital/biometric totalitarianism, and how it’s up to individuals to act… And you need this from time to time <laughs>.
Read more →Karl Hess written up at Reason. With Youtube links to a movie about him.
Read more →Zolli, using a study from Technorati Looking at those numbers it’s probably fair to say that there are 4 times as many potential English language bloggers as Japanese, so in light of that the Japanese are by far more active in blogging than English speakers. So, that’s interesting… what’s going on with that? Otaku? School [...]
Read more →The website for this new book is all in Flash and has no blog, so they’re clearly retarded in terms of internet marketing, but the idea is quite clever: that Democrats have forgotten how to weave myths and dreams to tell their story and get their message across. While (my addition) the Republicans have become [...]
Read more →Legotown Teachers notice kids fighting about lego distribution, institute socialism. National Review responds. Neither side seems to have a satisfactory answer unsurprisingly. The depth of the wrongheadedness of both sides is unnerving, but would you or I have done better in this situation I wonder?
Read more →A little light reading – 40 pages of details on how they spend their money, and how they get by. the economic lives of the very poor.pdf.zip The propensity to own a radio or a television, a widespread form of entertainment for American households varies considerably across countries. For example, among rural households living under [...]
Read more →Real money guy thinks so. What should have been a relatively small SLL/USD exchange trades given media claims about millions of dollars flying around per week in 2006, in reality caused the exchange markets to distort tremendously. We could not effectively move sums of more than a couple thousand dollars out of SL without the [...]
Read more →Theos Car C,mm,n (aka Common.) The Theos Car has a much wider remit for a re-examination of the fundamentals of car design. Much better shot at coming up with a revolutionary breakthrough. Seriously thinking of getting involved with that one.
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