Two ideas you really missed if you didn’t go to #gov20LA

We invest in our 401ks, we need to think about investing in our government. A new way of thinking about investment, from Alan Silverman That’s a great idea. Especially from the point of view of parents who are wanting to have a better world for their children. There is the opportunity to invest locally in…

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Open Data Wikipedia or How many monkeys = 1 statistician?

Remember that old saying that 1,000,000 monkeys on a typewriter would eventually produce Shakespeare? After the equivalent of more than a 1,000,000 monkey-years of text published on the web, so far, no Shakespeare. (For a superb, in-depth discussion of this point, read Jason Lanier’s book, “You are not a gadget”) In very, very, brief, LanierĀ …