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Crichton’s Jurassic Park: Chapter 29 “Breeding Sites” (Pages 192 – 205)
This chapter, the final pat of ‘third iteration’ really kicks off the action. The kids see velociraptors on the boat heading to the mainland. Nedry steals the dinosaur embryos, releasing a computer virus to cover his tracks. The virus shuts … Continue reading
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Crichton’s Jurassic Park: Chapter 28 “Control” [5/12] (Pages 186 – 192) Poisson vs Gaussian Distribution?
Crichton has confidence in the technical literacy of his reader – as shown by the eleven tables / exhibits he uses in this chapter alone. These are data tables made to look as if they were cut-copy-pasted straight from an … Continue reading
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Tagged "Life finds a way", art, BD Wong, Book Review, Books, Competition, Computer, Control, Corporate, Dr. Henry Wu, drawing, fiction, film, gauss, gaussian distribution, horror, Ian Malcolm, illustration, Jurassic Park, literature, Michael Crichton, Movie quotes, movies, painting, photography, poetry, poisson, Programming, Reading, Safety, Science Fiction, Sick dinosaur, Statistics, Stegosaurus, steven-spielberg, theme parks, Writing
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Untangling: What’s Happening in Chicago? How Much Is Violence an Issue?
A friend and I can’t tell the real impact of violence in Chicago – how can we describe what’s going on? Continue reading
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Tagged Chicago, Fractal, Fracture, Media, News, reporting, Statistics, Violence
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Our Gladwellian Future
Gladwellian stories are those that take a common assumption and then overturn it with data. As the cost of generating data decreases, and as inaccurate data grows, the genre finds itself in an arms race. Determining what is enough data … Continue reading
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Tagged Commerce, Data, Gladwell, Malcolm Gladwell, Publishing, Relevance, Research, Statistics, TED, Writing
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