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Normally, we create our own Christmas cards. I will often buy something that looks nice, sign them, and ship them off to friends and relatives. We’ve done a newsletter or two, usually after big changes in our lives, like getting new jobs or moving. This year I decided to go high tech (as I should,…
I just finished reading The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. It is, as Kevin Drum notes, an odd book to read. The tone makes you want to not trust Taleb, and he almost tells you not to trust him, but then his ideas make some sense. He seems prescient about the current…
One of my areas of interest is network theory, especially as it applies to the Internet and while this book may not be about network theory specifically, it’s certainly a good demonstration of some of its principles. Bill Tancer works for Hitwise, a competitive intelligence company, meaning they look at available data and try to…
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