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		<title>NSA scandal notes</title>
		<link>http://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/nsa-scandal-notes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 01:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Locklin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[privacy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Almost 3 months ago, I wrote the following passage: &#8220;One privacy advantage Yandex has which Google never will: Yandex does not do business with American intelligence agencies. I do not like the fact that Google has become an arm of US intelligence agencies. It is to their credit that Google discloses their relationship with the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scottlocklin.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6936594&#038;post=1560&#038;subd=scottlocklin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BTC bubbles</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 03:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Locklin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not surprisingly, Bitcoin prices are well described by the  log periodic power laws describing the dynamics of bubbles. A reminder of what a LPPL model looks like; here is a simple one: I didn&#8217;t profit from this. I thought of applying LPPL to the BTC bubble well before the crash during a bullshit session with [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scottlocklin.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6936594&#038;post=1534&#038;subd=scottlocklin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The largest computer ever built</title>
		<link>http://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/the-largest-computer-ever-built/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 03:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Locklin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[big machines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While cold war jets are an old interest of mine, almost everything built to fight the cold war fascinates me. All ages are characterized by madness; only a few have that madness captured in physical objects. Consider the largest computer ever built: the &#8220;Semi-Automatic Ground Environment&#8221; or SAGE system. The SAGE system was designed to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scottlocklin.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6936594&#038;post=1375&#038;subd=scottlocklin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Search engines for grownups</title>
		<link>http://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/searc-for-grownups/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Locklin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[semantic web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Google is an amazing company. It is so all-pervasive it has become a verb. It also annoys the hell out of me, and I avoid it whenever I can. No matter how annoying their interface becomes, or how many weird and privacy invading things they do, no matter how many crypto-religious fruitcakes they hire, they&#8217;re  [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scottlocklin.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6936594&#038;post=1401&#038;subd=scottlocklin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The enigma of the Ford paradox</title>
		<link>http://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2013/03/07/the-enigma-of-the-ford-paradox/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 04:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Locklin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[chaos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“God plays dice with the Universe. But they’re loaded dice. And the main objective of physics now is to ﬁnd out what rules were they and how we can use them for our own ends.” -Joe Ford Joe Ford was one of the greats of “Chaos Theory.” He is largely responsible for turning this into [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scottlocklin.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6936594&#038;post=1126&#038;subd=scottlocklin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kickstarter: muppets threaten lawsuits!</title>
		<link>http://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2013/03/05/kickstarter-muppets-threaten-lawsuits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 23:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Locklin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fraud]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I received this childish threat via email today from Mr. Tommy Joseph. Obviously, he has never heard of SLAPP laws.  I&#8217;ll remove the photo of his dumb idea, because I am a nice guy, though it certainly does not infringe on any copyrights, and provide a link instead. The text of my assessment of their [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scottlocklin.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6936594&#038;post=1441&#038;subd=scottlocklin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kickstarter: muppet graveyard part 2</title>
		<link>http://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2013/03/01/kickstarter-muppet-graveyard-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 02:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Locklin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investments]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps people think I engage in hyperbole about Kickstarter projects. No, I merely speak the obvious truth. It is a place of fraud and deception, a place which takes advantage of well meaning nerds who don&#8217;t think critically. Remember my five criteria for a perfect Kickstarter marketing pitch? Let&#8217;s review. Make it hardware related. Most [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scottlocklin.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6936594&#038;post=1413&#038;subd=scottlocklin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kickstarter: muppet graveyard</title>
		<link>http://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/kickstarter-muppet-graveyard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Locklin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fraud]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If another person sends me a kickstarter proposal, Lord Humongous help me, I&#8217;ll go light the nitwits who founded it on fire. I&#8217;m sure someone reading will say, &#8220;you mean &#8216;bad kickstarter proposal&#8217;&#8221; but that&#8217;s uselessly tautological: I have never seen a kickstarter proposal which wasn&#8217;t on the short bus. Mind you, I&#8217;m all for [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scottlocklin.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6936594&#038;post=1398&#038;subd=scottlocklin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nano on the pink sheets: anatomy of a pump and dump</title>
		<link>http://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/nano-hits-the-pink-sheets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2012 09:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Locklin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nanotech]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t remember how this got into my browser window, but it got there somehow. Nanotech. Someone wants me to invest, like, cash money into Nanotech. They want this so much they registered a domain name dedicated to &#8230; some obscure company called &#8220;Nano labs&#8221; or CTLE on the OTC pink sheets. Please click on [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scottlocklin.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6936594&#038;post=1376&#038;subd=scottlocklin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A look at the J language: the fine line between genius and insanity</title>
		<link>http://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/a-look-at-the-j-language-the-fine-line-between-genius-and-insanity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 05:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Locklin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[J]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been looking for a decent TSDB for years now. Took a shot at writing one in Lush using HDF5 (as others have done), but the experiments I did raised more questions than I got answers. I&#8217;m sure it can be done; I&#8217;m also sure it will be a compromise and source of endless suffering. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scottlocklin.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6936594&#038;post=1315&#038;subd=scottlocklin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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