…then don’t act like a sheep. photo credit: russelljsmithSteve Steinberg’s new blog, called comma separated values, has an interesting entry about group think and the predictability of not only groups, but also individuals within those groups. Also known as crowd dynamics. Alas, many of the comments are concerns about “one’s personal [...]
I have problems keeping my glasses clean - it is the oddest thing - dust just seems to settle right on the lens. It seems that no matter how I clean the lenses, whatever I am doing is causing small cracks in the lens where they meet the frame. So, today I went [...]
Quite a few years ago while going to college I had a great job working for the Navy. It was a student job - a lot of filing, photocopying and answering phones - but I also got to dig deeper into how data was being managed. Helping some people with their tasks and [...]
The first blog entry is titled Making a difference, which I guess is exactly what Google would expect of “lots of world class Ph.D.s (and a few non-Ph.D.s)“. It is interesting that they made a distinction between engineers (”who do the real work”) and Ph.D.s. Golly, the blog was launched almost a month [...]
The sub-title of this data mining blog is “Ruminations on computational geometry, algorithms, theoretical computer science and life”. I enjoy capturing links to blogs that have a great number of entries to browse through for new ideas. This blog has been around since early 2004 and it is updated quite often.
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