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A few months ago, Steve suggested I write a paper for a particular conference. He even gave me a topic. Brat that I am, I thought about for a few minutes and then flat out said no to that topic but thought of another one suitable for the conference. I decided to write on the … Continue reading An almost-blog post One can fairly simply write a module to dump data into Inflo. The first thing I populated the database with was with some population data and then surface area data. I’m currently thinking of adding GDP data. Any ideas as to what other easily mineable data I ought to include? And now for something completely different: the post that I’ve alluded to for a few weeks (and as far back as last year)… I started this blog post shortly after writing Let’s scrap the long-form census!, but have only recently finished it. No, this is not about “drafting” or conscripting people to fill out long-form versions of the census. It’s about the draft form of a census; that is, how a long-form census is born and its future … Continue reading Census draft Last week, I highlighted some points from Professor Mor Harchol-Balter’s talk. This week, I would like to focus on a different point she made related to the academia-industry divide. Last week, Professor Mor Harchol-Balter visited us at the University of Toronto to deliver a talk as part of the Department of Computer Science’s Distinguished Lecture Series. During her excellent talk, she showed how intuition often fails us when scaling systems to meet a given load, even with perfect information of load patterns, whereby the … Continue reading Professor Mor Harchol-Balter talk & Consolidating load in data centres About a month ago, I switched cellular service providers from Rogers to WIND Mobile. Aside from the abysmal quality of the phone or more precisely, the Android operating system, I purchased for use on the new network, the cellular network infrastructure requires some work. Indeed, WIND Mobile is well aware of this problem and has … Continue reading Identifying gaps in wireless network infrastructure |
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jonathan lung
In defence of climate change deniers
I’ve heard some people say they don’t understand how people can hold the view that climate change is not anthropogenic yet claim that climate change can be countered cheaply using geo-engineering, e.g., by injecting sulfur1 into the atmosphere. The reason for their concern is that they think it’s logically inconsistent since the effects of geo-engineering …
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