I’m making a collection of model aggregators; i.e. firms that collect information about a group of people from many parties and then turn around and reveal that to another group. The New York State driver’s license system is interesting. The regulations that govern the revealing of driver’s license information are found in a law: DPPA [...]
New improved version of the Tasty? bookmarklet! Instead of bouncing off my server this one bounces off the del.icio.us server using a newly revealed (at least to me) mechanism. This is better, you’ll only be revealing your curiosity to del.icio.us rather than to both me and del.icio.us. Drag this to your bookmark bar, discard your [...]
Tim Oren takes a poke at simplistic applications of Reed’s law. I’d love to see a careful attempt to enumerate a long list of the barriers that frustrate the pipeline between Moore’s law and his friends and the economic productivity improvements that so pop out much much latter. It takes a long time for society [...]
I love this meme. related
Update! See here. If you drag this bookmarklet into your bookmark bar: Tasty? Then when visiting a page you can click on it to see how many people thought it was interesting enough to bookmark at del.icio.us. You can read their comments and category assignments. That bounces off my server; so I’ll be keeping an [...]
Since reading about alibi clubs I’ve been subscribed to Textuality.org a blog about text messaging on cell phones. New technology collides with society: sparks fly. The template for these stories seems to be you take a distinct preferable subordinate group and text messaging and out pops a story! Here some examples: The Unemployed, text them:”Mango [...]
I note two other processes that grow a power-law distribution in Newman’s survey paper. The first is a variation of the preferential attachment model. I think of that as a shopping model. New nodes shop for what to connect to. The first of these two models has a different method of shopping. The alternate shopping [...]
I’ve spent much of the week playing with different model of the identity problem than I usually use. This model arose because I wanted to draw some pictures to help people visualize how an Joe’s internet identity is the union of models held by the firms: your bank has one, DoubleClick has another, etc. I [...]
Could this be the real reason for opposition to gay marriage?
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