Author Archives: John Williams

And they’re all obsessed with coffee, too!

January 23, 2008 – 6:08 pm

I haven’t read Lee Siegel’s anti-Internet book Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob yet, but the New York Times has reviewed it and the opening, at least, sounds like the kind of argument I’ve heard against computers and technology ever since I was calling electronic bulletin board systems [...]

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Star Trek Analytics and the Value of Observation

October 22, 2007 – 9:35 am

SiteLogic Founder Matt Bailey uses the power of analytics — that is, statistical analysis — to determine how Star Trek’s famous Red Shirts can live long, happy lives instead of being messily killed on one of Captain Kirk’s adventures. A noble project. But Bailey’s analysis ignores both context and behavior, and this is the result:
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