In “Good Math, Bad Math,” Ph.D. carrying, Google-employed, shmartypants Mark Chu-Carroll talks about how math can be used, incorrectly, to mislead people into having expectations that do not match up to reality. His latest post points out a particularly interesting one – the bad math used to calculate the mileage on the Chevy Volt. The [...]
Archive | August, 2009
A Brief Revisionist History of Time.
The “Investors Business Daily” recently wrote an op-ed piece opposing public healthcare. I’m not going to get into the overall argument about public vs. private healthcare, but the line below (since edited out of the official version) is just too hilarious: “People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the U.K., where [...]
An Epiphany I Had While Playing Pac-Man
This past weekend, I downloaded “Pac-Man Championship Edition” on my roommate’s Xbox. I played the heck out of that sucker. My other roommate invited me to learn, and perhaps play a game of Go. I told him I wasn’t interested. And that’s when I realized something. When I play games – video or boardgame – [...]
Cyxymu
There were outages related to denial of service attacks on three of the biggest social networking Web sites – Twitter, Facebook, and Livejournal – yesterday. What could be the purpose of such a thing? Actually, it was a concentrated effort to silence a particular individual, a Georgian (the country) blogger who goes by the name [...]
Risky Business
Bruce Schneier, if you don’t know him, is one of the Web’s foremost experts on security. I don’t just mean computer security, though he focuses on that – but security overall, including anti-terrorism and crime security. I read his blog often, because even though I’m not a security geek, his writings are very insightful. Schneier [...]
Google Aquires On2 Technologies for $106.5M in Stock Deal
The Dow Jones Newswires report that Google will acquire On2 Technologies, a company that makes video compression, for $106.5M worth of stock, presumably for the video site YouTube. It’s an awfully big investment – (a hefty 6.7x multiple of On2’s trailing twelve months (TTM) revenue, one of the highest multiples in tech over the last [...]
Brownouts Vs. Blackouts.
NetworksFirst.com has recently created an online “Impact of Network Downtime” calculator, which you can use to estimate how much money it would cost if your network went down. It makes a compelling case for fault management and worrying about outages. However, the cost of poor application performance is harder to quantify – or at least, [...]
Notes on John Chambers’ Interview
Recently, in the Herald Tribune, there was an interview with John Chambers, CEO of Cisco. One of the things about the interview that I found particularly interesting was that it seems that Chambers is really into collaboration technologies. You would expect a networking hardware and software company to be into collaboration – the entire point [...]
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How to (make albums) Disappear Completely
Thom Yorke, lead singer of Radiohead and vice president of the “Extra Silent Hs and Trailing Es Foundation” said in a music magazine interview that it plans to focus on downloadable singles and EPs instead of putting together albums. Yorke claimed that the album format was extremely difficult, creatively, to put together. But more than [...]