Anonymization --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Policy and Law: Identifiability of de-identified data" (includes, specifically, medial) http://latanyasweeney.org/work/identifiability.html EFF de-anon tool for browsers Netflix/IMDB dataset search query dataset "how many bits" type of identification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_anonymization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-anonymization "Collapse" book notes --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Lactational amenorrhea": temporary infertility after birthing when breast feeding Cooperatives ("Co-ops") --------------------------------------------------------------------- A coop is a social and educational institution as well as a mutual employer. A coop should not restrict the rights of it's employees any more than a regular "citizen". Eg, contracts should have no non-compete provisions, no restrictions on employee's activities and behavior outside of work, no muzzling effect on blogging, etc. Some Tech Coops: * http://www.gaiahost.coop/ * http://www.isthmuseng.com/ * http://electricembers.net/aboutus.php Julia (programming) --------------------------------------------------------------------- reload("MyModule"); M = MyModule() then do, eg, M.myfunc(). Don't need to export stuff. *do* need to symlink the project dir into ~/.julia there is a way to recreate a new top-level "Main" module: workspace() the workspace() function in combination with include() kind of works Programming Language Design --------------------------------------------------------------------- Interesting accessible background: "specs (Lisp, ML, ALGOL, Ada, JS2, ES4, RnRS, Redex, POPLmark, Rust, K, Comp/JSCert)" http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/1839.html "interactive scientific computing #1 of 2, pythonic parts" http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/3186.html "interactive scientific computing #2 of 2, goldilocks languages" http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/189377.html Makefiles --------------------------------------------------------------------- https://gist.github.com/isaacs/62a2d1825d04437c6f08 Recursive Make and Variables... If using recursive make, it's good to review the rules about environment variables, passing, exporting, etc: http://web.mit.edu/gnu/doc/html/make_5.html#SEC50