Monthly Archives: October 2006

On the mighty value of the liberal arts

We always argue (hope?) that all this wonderful stuff we’re passing along at a liberal arts college will have some value down the road, often in strange and unexpected ways, but it’s awfully nice when concrete examples come our way, … Continue reading

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Turmoil in my top four

So Flickr has this notion of “interestingness”, which is some algorithmic measure of how “interesting” a photo might be to view. No such measure can be perfect, and as one might expect there are vast oceans of (digital) ink spilt … Continue reading

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