Return to blogging
After a hiatus from sharing so-called intimate details about my life, I’ve decided to get more ideas out there. After all, in the immortal words of Jethro Tull, “it’s only the giving that makes you...
View ArticleCollusion Research
Over the past few months, I have been busy at work researching new methods of detecting keyword collusion in large advertising network datasets. This is challenging task; there is little ground truth...
View ArticleTournament / Con Rules for Junta
Junta is a great game and is a ton of fun to play, especially at cons. If run right, it will attract onlookers and generate enough interest to have many watchers shaking their heads and chucking at...
View Article1-on-None: Solitaire Basketball
I try to get out to shoot hoops at least 3 times a week. When I do, there are sometimes others at the hoops and we shoot around, run drills, or get in a game. But when nobody else is around, I want...
View ArticleSome critiques of display advertising
There are countless critiques of display advertising, many of them cultural or philosophical in nature. In most of my browsers, I install an adblocker from day one and employ tools like Ghostery to...
View ArticleThe Vegetative Line of Stefan Gahr
On the prowl for artistic inspiration, I recently stumbled across the work of Stefan Gahr. Gahr’s work threads the line between tension and relaxation. He hammers, dents, and welds a wide variety of...
View ArticleYoung Americans
I’ve recently rediscovered this Bowie record produced coincidentally during my fetal development in the womb. After hitting it big in America, Bowie made his way to Philadelphia to delve in blue-eyed,...
View ArticleO Seeger, My Seeger!
Up late working on a model analysis extension to R’s reactive framework to help students succeed, and I couldn’t help coming across news of Pete Seeger’s passing. As one of my favorite folk singers...
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