December 2007
31 posts
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Data Greed leads to Data Death →
Society’s need for data growth has lead us away from paying attention to the data we already have. The focus is always on the data we don’t have, and how do we obtain it. We cannot ignore storing our current data. Software engineers can create new data sets as fast as hardware engineers create new technologies to store those data sets. So where is this leading us?
Dec 23rd
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Moronic Brakers Cause Traffic Jams →
Dec 21st
Bond Insurance is Worthless →
Investors and Issuers are now forgoing bond insurance provided by the Monolines. Investors must think the Monolines have taken on too much risk and won’t be able to accurately insure new issuance.
Dec 21st
Micro Nukes →
Dec 21st
Another Bear Case →
“It is the great irony of financial crisis that the very measures that could have prevented crisis are counterproductive in a time of crisis.” “In this environment the dominant risk is a downward spiral in which financial roblems curtail credit and spending thereby reducing economic activity, which in turn exacerbates the financial problems, creating a vicious spiral. Once in...
Dec 20th
Corporate Downgrades
“Moody’s reduced ratings on 389 corporate issues this quarter, compared with 150 upgrades.” Source
Dec 20th
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Global GDP  →
Dec 19th
Dec 19th
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1-800-G00G-411 →
“The speech recognition experts that we have say: If you want us to build a really robust speech model, we need a lot of phonemes, which is a syllable as spoken by a particular voice with a particular intonation. So we need a lot of people talking, saying things so that we can ultimately train off of that. … So 1-800-GOOG-411 is about that: Getting a bunch of different speech samples so that...
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The Subprime Plan →
Dec 10th
Bush's Downfall
Information the President forgot to Censor.Tape Destruction More information the President forgot to Censor. Iran doesn't have nukesHis censorship of information has been lazy during his second term. The truth hurts Mr. President.
Dec 10th
Subprime
“The cheap money that fueled the housing bubble came not from banks, but from investors who bought debt backed from subprime and jumbo mortgages.” ~ Jacqueline Doherty
Dec 10th
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Immanuel Kant Debunked →
Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
Christopher Walken takes the Census →
Dec 7th
Computing with Photons →
Dec 6th
“A man is nothing but his mind; if that be out of order, all’s amiss, and...”
– Gerolamo Cardano
Dec 5th
gBrain? →
Dec 4th
Infant Robot Hands are Learning →
Dec 3rd