Verditious
By Daniel Miessler on October 7th, 2008: Tagged as Music
BET Does a Nature Show
By Daniel Miessler on October 6th, 2008: Tagged as Humor
Bayes’ Theorem Applied to Email
By Daniel Miessler on October 6th, 2008: Tagged as Science
Poser geeks love to say, whenever something has to do with the probability of something happening, that it’s “Bayesian”. They know Bayes’ Theorem has something to do with probability, so they bust it out at every opportunity in an attempt to score points with the Geekorati. It’s sad, really.
I first came to know of the concept through email (Spammassassin, specifically), and now I’m interacting with it again due to my buddy Alex Hutton and the FAIR Risk Assessment system. Anyway, here’s what Bayes’ Theorem looks like when applied to email (from Wikipedia):.
Bayes’ theorem, in the context of spam, says that the probability that an email is spam, given that it has certain words in it, is equal to the probability of finding those certain words in spam email, times the probability that any email is spam, divided by the probability of finding those words in any email:
That’s an email version of this:
Very cool stuff. Here’s the main article on Wikipedia.
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I’ve Added a Search Function
By Daniel Miessler on October 5th, 2008: Tagged as Blogging
Not sure if anyone’s missed it, but I’ve re-added my search function. It’s available via the nav menu at the top of the page. The initial page is pretty no-frills, but the subsequent Google landing page is pretty nice.
[ This is a screenshot, not a working search box ]
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A Ron Paul Republican Explains Why Obama is the Best Choice
By Daniel Miessler on October 5th, 2008: Tagged as Election 2008 | Obama | Politics
This short read is an absolute must for those out there clinging to true conservative, Ron Paul-esque values in this election. It’s very similar to what I wrote here, but much, much better.
A couple of my favorite excerpts:
In 1932, America needed a strong leader like FDR; in 1980, it needed a strong leader like Reagan. In 2008, it needs a strong leader like Paul or Obama (depending on one’s political views), but the last thing it needs is someone unstable, erratic and given to melodrama and grandstanding when it suits his whim.
Given the choice between McCain’s reckless, “now I don’t see a problem, now I see an economy about to crater” approach to the economy and Obama’s long-established understanding that things have been in bad shape for many years; between McCain’s overly dramatic tendencies toward grandstanding and Obama’s intelligent, rational decision-making processes; between a political party that exhibited a collective ignorance in rejecting their best and brightest candidate and a party that chose the candidate that best represents its values, Punditty sees it as a no-brainer.
I urge all my conservative friends who are not voting for Obama to read it and pass it along. And for those of you who are voting for Obama, please send this to your Republican friends who are still thinking rather than following.
[ GOP Nominated the Wrong Candidate, Making Obama the Best Choice In November | allvoices.com ]
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Some “Family Values” Types Who Support McCain
By Daniel Miessler on October 5th, 2008: Tagged as Election 2008 | Politics
The fact that they misspelled both “socialist” and “maverick” just makes it that much better. But the best part is that if you asked them they wouldn’t think this is a problem.
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Stupidity as a First Amendment Right
By Daniel Miessler on October 5th, 2008: Tagged as Culture | Politics
They want to use their first amendment rights to be ignorant. Well, I’m going to use mine to expose that ignorance.
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