Posts with keyword: statistics

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Black Swans and the Impact of Improbable Events

Tue May 22 16:51:00 2007

Black Swans(click to enlarge) Yesterday, Nassim Nicholas Taleb was on Talk of the Nation talking about his book Black Swan. Of course, we published Moira Gunn's interview with Taleb a few weeks ago on IT Conversations. The name comes from the fact that for centuries Europeans used the term "black swan" as synonymous with something that was impossible--until they got to Australia where black swans are common. Taleb uses it as an allegory for an improbable event that changes some aspect of our world drastically. It's funny how when you learn a new concept it becomes a way to
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Top Ten Shows on IT Conversations for December 2006

Fri Jan 5 14:29:00 2007

Here are the top ten most popular shows on IT Conversations for December by downloads: Tim O'Reilly's O'Reilly Radar from the MySQL conference Steven Levy - How the iPod Shuffles Culture Alistair Cockburn - Redefining Software Engineering Emerging Telephony Sessions - Community & Activism The Wireless Explosion - Supernova2006 Rohit Khare - Decentralization in Commerce and Open Source IEEE Spectrum Radio - Reconstructing Iraq's Power Grid Alisson Young - Bringing Down the Price of Drugs Lebkowsky & Rosen - Political Networks John Ostrem - LiPs Linux Phone Initiative Overall in December we served up over 800 unique MP3 files
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Most Popular Posts for Fourth Quarter

Tue Jan 10 20:32:00 2006

Here are the most popular articles from Technometria in the fourth quarter of 2005 and the percentage of all page views they accounted for: Video iPod and Tivo - 6.41% How to Start a Blog - 5.25% Using VLC to Create iPod Ready Video - 3.77% Did You Know? DVD-R vs. DVD+R - 3.32% Ruby on Rails (OSCON 2005 Tutorial) - 2.57% Two of these, the one on starting a blog and the Ruby tutorial, were in August's most popular posts as well. As you'd expect all of these are fairly well placed on Google. Browser statistics for Technometria
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