Everyday life in South Africa is, mercifully, much less constrained by legal restrictions based on race than it was 30 years ago. However, it appears that IT has rendered our racial bureaucrats more "productive". A certain very large university has just released the following statistics. What, on earth, is this meant to convey and is it really likely that the unbelievably exact 66,74% should appear twice, in adjacent cells, or did someone's finger slip?
Assorted links
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1. There is a great stagnation. 2. There is no great stagnation (the new
world of private drones). 3. How good a signal is a virtual rose? 4.
Everyday life...
Ball Hogs and Long Meetings
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Listen to an NBA coach during a game and you will often hear him scream
something like the following:
- “You have to share the ball.”
- “Start look...
Mining Tweets for Public Opinion
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Twitter, Facebook and other social media contain tantalizing signals about
public opinion. Extracting that from the noise is the challenge facing a
new bat...
Vraelys oor die bruikbaarheid van Virtaal
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'n Student aan die Universiteit van Mainz in Duitsland, Almana Mukabenova,
doen tans navorsing oor die bruikbaarheid van die vertaalprogram Virtaal.
Sy h...
Linux Web Hosting vs Windows Web Hosting
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Linux Web hosting vs Windows Web hosting
Those new to the world of web hosting must be confused between picking a
Linux server and a Windows server. Tod...
The battle of the piggy banks with the money doses
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I didn’t know this piece by Pieter Bruegel. That’s the only interesting
thing I got from Niall Ferguson’s BBC series the Ascent of Money. The
show’s disma...
3 X 3 Reuleaux triangles
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Update 25th September 2009: for a very similar picture, see this post by
David Eppstein. [The piece below used to lie around on my homepage since
April 200...