Reality Checks: Algorithmically Recreating the Silk Road, Lost Orbiters, Boaty McBoatface, and the Non Necessities of Providing Evidence

Elizabeth — March 14, 2017

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The Silk Road and algorithms. (via Ars Technica)
Boaty McBoatface launches for science! (via NPR)
Ms Conway adds such clarity as can be expected to her claim that surveillance devices might be in microwaves, to whit, that it is not her job to provide evidence. (via NYTimes)
NASA just found an orbiter that had been missing for 8 years. (via The Washington Post)

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Elizabeth is a professional belly dancer, a flaky computer scientist, and a returned Peace Corps volunteer. She lives in Georgia (the state of the U.S., not the country) but is nonetheless somehow not a combination of stereotypes from Gone with the Wind and Deliverance. Her personal blog is Coffeefied. Operafied. Fluffified. Beglittered.

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