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We’ve Been Really and Truly **cked (Insert a consonant and vowel of your choice)

We’ve Been Really and Truly **cked (Insert a consonant and vowel of your choice)

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High-Precision Mind-**cking   You already know the main storyline: Cambridge Analytica, Brietbart, Facebook, and possible other players. Trump’s win of the electoral vote by about 40,000 votes through carefully targeting not only certain swing states, but micro-elements within those states. The questions now are (for those of us techie folks): (1) Technically, just how did this happen? (We want more than the few words in the mainstream news), and (2) (That which really interests us:) What are the countermeasures? One…

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What We Really Need to Know about Entropy

What We Really Need to Know about Entropy

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There’s This Funny Little “Gotcha” Secret about Entropy: Nobody mentions this secret. (At least in polite society.) But here’s the thing – entropy shows up in all sorts of information theory and machine learning algorithms. And it shows up ALONE, as though it sprung – pure and holy – from the head of the famed Ludwig Boltzmann. What’s wrong with this is that: entropy never lives alone, in isolation. In the real world, entropy exists – always – hand-in-hand with…

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A Rant!

A Rant!

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Yes, a For-Real Rant! OK, I promised a rant in yesterday’s blogpost. Thought I could hold off for a while. Turns out I can’t. Here’s the gist: you’re learning machine learning. You’re deeply immersed in learning deep learning. You’re more-or-less on your own, and you’re doing this in oddball hours; after work, after taking the kids to soccer practice and the dog to the vet. Keeping some semblance of a relationship going. You’re moving as fast as you can ……

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