Comments for Ellie Asks Why

Comment on Taleb and the language of risk by gaussling

gaussling — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 03:43:40 +0000

I don’t think that “antifragility” quite captures the concept. If Taleb has an example in mind, it should be named after that … sort of like “Black Swan”. By the way, I enjoyed this post.

Comment on How to clean the Goo dot gl virus by Nony mouse

Nony mouse — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 21:27:27 +0000

Hi. Who is the female neurologist that contributed to Wiki but decided to leave (account name, not real name). Just curious to see what went down. No stalking or anything.

Comment on Ad hoc text analytics by Rich Murnane

Rich Murnane — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:48:55 +0000

Very interesting little project! Would love to hear a little more about the results. Did you compare the results of the “bright” people against people you thought weren’t so “bright”? Seems to me you could have created a “thoughtful person index” or something, akin to the Klout score as you inferred. Perhaps if your score was merged with the account’s Klout score and the number of followers of the account you really could identify some interesting people to follow.

Best…Rich (@murnane)

Comment on How to clean the Goo dot gl virus by Rick Geiger

Rick Geiger — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:55:25 +0000

Hello, Ellie, Yes, I got the joke…just thought I would play along, I am into irony and dead pan humor -:) Hope you are having a good month and that the new year brings you everything you want and need!!

Comment on How to clean the Goo dot gl virus by Ellie K

Ellie K — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 15:19:12 +0000

Hello Mr. Geiger, I hope all is well for you. Just so you know, this is not a real virus. It was a very silly joke that I saw on Quora. In fact, goo.gl (goo dot gl) is the official Google short URL service. It isn't a virus. It is very safe, just as much as bitly or more so. Here is a little article that I wrote for fun, several years ago, about short URLs, URL Tall Tales: Googl and Bitly, a Shorter Story. Best wishes to your for a happy and prosperous New Year! -- Ellie

Comment on How to clean the Goo dot gl virus by Rick Geiger

Rick Geiger — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 13:47:55 +0000

Thanks for info…had not heard of that

Comment on US Mint ends production of one dollar coins by nic (@nwerneck)

nic (@nwerneck) — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 03:31:53 +0000

I was surprised when I was in the US and often got 1 dollar coins as change from the bus ticket machines. I didn’t even know these coins existed! I wonder how we will get the change now, not in 1 USD bills, I suppose…

Comment on The problem with randomness by Luvnish

Luvnish — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 05:20:28 +0000

I’ve only just started on that side venture. Hopefully it will flourish

Comment on The problem with randomness by Luvnish

Luvnish — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 05:12:42 +0000

That’s the thing. They have to have your algorithm for it to be easily cracked. What I’ve been thinking about was a program running on the server side. Then, there’s the whole time delay it takes for the packets to travel over the network. Although, yes, it is not very practical for encryption. But I haven’t thought that far. I only thought of a way to generate a seemingly random number on a machine.
Taking a constantly changing factor, time, seemed like a pretty good idea to me.

Comment on The problem with randomness by Ellie K

Ellie K — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:09:34 +0000

Hello Luvnish!
I appreciate that you stopped by to visit. Have a look at Infodox’s comment, and my reply though. I feel sort of guilty as I don’t want to mislead anyone by this admittedly sort of silly jokey post. Hope all is going well with your e-commerce endeavors!