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December 2008

Stop Linearly Scaling My Government

If we created a new branch of government or line of responsibility to match every major new branch of human capability, we would have a government that is monotonically increasing in size. This is clearly not a functional long term plan, and yet it’s what we tend to recommend. The CSIS report on ‘Securing [...]

Statistical Privacy

i’ve been doing a lot with machine learning lately. on some level, these are all problems about classification. by classifying, we learn to differentiate, and differentiation is what lets computers, not to mention humans, learn.
each time we approach a new problem, i find myself mentally getting caught up at the point where it becomes clear [...]

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