Potpourri

I am a twenty-something working in tech and interested in all sorts of subjects other than tech. Aiming to contribute on the areas where they intersect.

Potpourri is a collection interesting links and information I come across. I also write on Wordpress and Posterous (see links).

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  1. "There are only 7 billion people on the planet, and only about a billion on the Internet. Every fact about a person (are they male or female? Where they live? Do they listen to Brian Eno?) slices that number down by a significant fraction. If you have enough facts about a person, (33 bits of independent facts, it turns out, because log 2 7,000,000,000 = 32.7) you can determine who they are."
    —Websites that collect and republish seemingly innocuous facts about their users are often vulnerable to data mining.