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I’m from Newtown, Connecticut » Miscellaneous and Useless Information
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Miscellaneous and Useless Information. Sat 15 Dec 2012. I’m from Newtown, Connecticut. Posted by Jimmy Lin under Personal. I’ve seen my other friends do this, on the advice of Newtown High School teacher Lash Ashmore, so here goes. Hi, I’m from Newtown, Connecticut. Newtown has modern conveniences supermarkets, Starbucks, an Interstate highway. But it also has small-town charm. People go to the Town Hall. To watch movies for $2 and buy sandwiches at the General Store. Another new set of KCBS jingles.
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Ariel Hsing: Ping pong’s newest American star » Miscellaneous and Useless Information
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Miscellaneous and Useless Information. Sat 4 Aug 2012. Ariel Hsing: Ping pong’s newest American star. Posted by Jimmy Lin under Sports. Has had a great run at the Olympics as a member of the U.S. table tennis team. She was the only American to make it past the first round, she upset a former world champion in the second round, and she pushed the eventual gold medalist to the limit in the third round before losing in six tight games. And she’s friends with Warren Buffet and Bill Gates. Sign in with Twitter.
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The Dataphiles: September 2009
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A blog for data mining, machine learning, and other bits from stats, math, CS, and social sciences. And other stuff. Saturday, September 26, 2009. Machine Learning Protest at G20. I have returned to the blogosphere to report on our successful voicing of machine learning concerns at the G20 People's March yesterday. John Oliver of the Daily Show showed up. All in all it was a success. For full set of pictures, go HERE. Posted by Mary McGlohon. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The views and ...
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The Dataphiles: KDD 2008 <3's social networks
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A blog for data mining, machine learning, and other bits from stats, math, CS, and social sciences. And other stuff. Wednesday, August 27, 2008. KDD this year put a lot of focus on social networks research. In addition to the long-running WebKDD,. Produced "Snack DD". Or at least it should be.) The Matrix and Tensor Methods. Workshop also included a paper featuring graph mining, and of course matrix methods in general are important for SNA. There were also two relevant tutorials. Posted by Mary McGlohon.
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The Dataphiles: The popular get richer
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A blog for data mining, machine learning, and other bits from stats, math, CS, and social sciences. And other stuff. Sunday, September 7, 2008. The popular get richer. Pardon the hiatus; I have been busy at KDD and moving back to Pittsburgh (which included a 4-day scenic drive across the country). In the spirit of the season I've been looking at a large dataset of campaign donations, from 1980 to 2006. This data is free to the public from the FEC; I've parsed and made it available on my website. There ar...
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The Dataphiles: September 2007
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A blog for data mining, machine learning, and other bits from stats, math, CS, and social sciences. And other stuff. Sunday, September 9, 2007. Brains, politics, and PhDs. According to this study. Posted by Mary McGlohon. Links to this post. Tuesday, September 4, 2007. The many faces of Milgram. In the networks seminar class, we are currently discussing Milgram's small world experiment. And the various papers written about it. The small world experiment being that a bunch of people across the U.S...The s...
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The Dataphiles: June 2008
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A blog for data mining, machine learning, and other bits from stats, math, CS, and social sciences. And other stuff. Sunday, June 8, 2008. Book: Beyond Fear, by Bruce Schneier. I read this a couple months ago and failed to take it with me to Seattle, so I've lost the notes I took on it, but it at least bears mentioning. He proposes looking at a security problem/solution using the following steps:. 1 What assets are you trying to protect? 2 What are the risks to these assets? Posted by Mary McGlohon.
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The Dataphiles: April 2008
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A blog for data mining, machine learning, and other bits from stats, math, CS, and social sciences. And other stuff. Thursday, April 17, 2008. How to make time for literature review. The top 10 or so should be what I covered today. Also a fun article: via Physics Arxiv Blog. To How Many Politicians Should Government Be Left? I also discovered that Jure. Was smart enough to submit last year's SDM paper. Which yielded a citation. That has prompted me to register so I can post other publications. While in S...
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The Dataphiles: Butterflies in Vegas
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A blog for data mining, machine learning, and other bits from stats, math, CS, and social sciences. And other stuff. Tuesday, August 19, 2008. I'd like to take this opportunity to self-promote our talk, " Weighted Graphs and Disconnected Components. Next week in Las Vegas. This is work from CMU, with Leman Akoglu. For those planning to attend KDD, it will be the third in the Social Networks Research. They'll include the usual suspects from Yahoo! Posted by Mary McGlohon. August 25, 2008 at 4:53 PM. Prefe...
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The Dataphiles: Why can't we be journal-driven like real scientists?
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A blog for data mining, machine learning, and other bits from stats, math, CS, and social sciences. And other stuff. Sunday, August 1, 2010. Why can't we be journal-driven like real scientists? I have been in the depths of thesis-draft writing, so I believe that around 60% of my angst is an extremely acute case of senioritis. However, the other 40% is founded on actual frustrations with academia, which I am working on articulating bit by bit. I just got back from my last conference as a grad student.