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Welcome to the future!

I taught a short-course in prediction a few summers ago. I wish we could have all contributed to the new Wikicity wiki on future s. Maybe at some point in the… um… future.
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May Conferences

I am frustrated. There are some really interesting conferences and workshops coming up in May, but I am here in Buffalo for graduation. Jamie (my partner) is graduating from law school, and I want to be here for that, and as the director of the MI program, I need to be here to see our […]
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Convergence of Newspaper Content

Much talk lately about how the traditional media is converging in some way. If, for example, two newspapers were creating stories with substantially similar content, we would expect them to have increasingly similar distributions of word frequencies. That is, they probably use the word “chicken” about the same number of times for every 10,000 words. […]
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Visual Settlements and Keywords That Make a Difference

Anjo Anjewierden, at the University of Amsterdam, has been doing some very cool processing of blog text to help provide a textured, understandable view of a given blog within the context of a set of weblogs. First check out his approach to visualizing blogs as “Visual Settlements” along a number of dimensions. Naturally, such a […]
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