Top Hit for “Social Network Revolt” on Google!
In my daily googling today, I searched for “social network revolt” to find some articles on the Digg HD-DVD AACS key controversy that occurred at the beginning off the week. To my surprise, the post I wrote early in the morning on May 2nd, “A Social Network Revolt:; Numbers, Banned on Digg.com” came up as […]
A Social Network Revolt: Numbers, Banned on Digg.com
Ironically enough, there’s a social network revolt being staged right now at digg.com, for the exact reasons I highlighted in my previous post. A certain set of numbers are spreading like rapid-fire across the internet. The numbers are an encryption key for HD-DVD that will let individuals watch HD-DVD’s on unsupported hardware and software, for […]
Freedom, Banned in Boston: Mayor “Mumbles” Menino Fumbles with WiFi
By modern standards, I’ll be discussing some old news tonight, but it’s important and a topic I want to throw in my two cents on. A little over a week ago, a Boing Boing reader discovered that the popular group blog was banned on Boston’s WiFi network (for more background on the story, Google “WiFi […]
Integrated Marketing Communications: Amazon.com
The goal of this essay, for the Fundamentals of Marketing class at Umass-Amherst, was to “Explain what it means to have “integrated marketing communications”. Include issues such as how to measure results. Pick a company and describe how you view their use of Integrated Marketing Communications…”. I’ve yet to receive a grade for this paper, […]
One Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
The requirements for the fourth written response for my Statistics II course at UMass Amherst was: “Explain in your own terms the test for analysis of variance. What does an ANOVA test? Why is it useful? On what type of data would you apply it? What is the logic behind the test? Why does it […]
Upgrades & Cleanup
There’ll be some changes to this blog in the coming days, mostly in the WordPress theme and general layout of the site. I’ll be re-arranging and consolidating the categories you see in the side-bar to the right, as well as fixing a few things behind the scenes. If anyone has any suggestions, complaints or ideas, […]
Central Limit Theorem
The description for this assignment is as follows: “Given a non-normally distributed population such as the bimodal population which is pictured in figure 6-8, discuss and explain how such a population can have a frequency distribution of sample x-bars as shown in figure 6-9. How does Figure 6-8 relate to Figure 6-9 and then how […]
Logan Airport’s Rainbow Cove Green Parking Garage
Well, I’m just throwing that one post a day standard out the window, eh? [Imaginary Editor’s Note: Adam is not a Canadian although he uses “eh?” quite liberally] Well, breaking news of the sort you’re about to hear makes all standards completely invalid. I’m proud to announce that Boston has set a new world record […]
Similarities and Differences between the Standard Normal (z) and Student’s t Distributions
The requirements for this assignment were to compare and contrast the “…standard normal and the student t, or simply the t distribution. If we use the standard normal when σ [sigma, standard deviation] for the population is known and use the t distribution when σ is not known, explain any differences in the two distributions […]
Freakonomics versus Economics
I usually won’t post twice in a day (or so I say), but a post entitled, What is it about Polish people and lines?, by Steven D. Levitt, co-author of the uber-popular, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, really got me ticked off tonight! Steven recently went on a trip to […]