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Samidh Chakrabarti in 140 characters or more…. March 15, 2010. If it is not already obvious, one of my favorite hobbies is cooking. Recently, as I was toiling away on a seafood risotto, I had a realization:. Cooking is a form of coding. People might enjoy cooking for many of the same reasons people enjoy coding. If you think about it, the similarities between these two activities are striking:. Coders love to constantly test and debug in real-time. They like to quickly write a function, test it out, ...
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Samidh Chakrabarti in 140 characters or more…. March 22, 2010. That people give the term “lobbyist” is justly deserved. Too often companies use lobbyists and other political action committees to threaten politicians and undermine democracy. They try to win influence by using the power of their cash rather than the power of their ideas. But “lobbying” doesn’t have to be this way. In recent months, I’ve gotten to know the incredibly bright people in Google’s Washington DC. Google’s Policy Innovations.
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Samidh Chakrabarti in 140 characters or more…. Posts Tagged 'anand sarwate'. Privacy Protection Via Misinformation. March 17, 2010. The New York Times has a very informative (and scary) article. Giving an overview of how statistical data mining of information from social networks can compromise people’s private information. And pretty much anything else you’d need to compromise people’s most sensitive accounts. Spread as much misinformation as possible about yourself on the internet. March 18, 1979.
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Samidh Chakrabarti in 140 characters or more…. March 22, 2010. That people give the term “lobbyist” is justly deserved. Too often companies use lobbyists and other political action committees to threaten politicians and undermine democracy. They try to win influence by using the power of their cash rather than the power of their ideas. But “lobbying” doesn’t have to be this way. In recent months, I’ve gotten to know the incredibly bright people in Google’s Washington DC. Google’s Policy Innovations.
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Samidh Chakrabarti in 140 characters or more…. March 22, 2010. That people give the term “lobbyist” is justly deserved. Too often companies use lobbyists and other political action committees to threaten politicians and undermine democracy. They try to win influence by using the power of their cash rather than the power of their ideas. But “lobbying” doesn’t have to be this way. In recent months, I’ve gotten to know the incredibly bright people in Google’s Washington DC. Google’s Policy Innovations.
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Samidh Chakrabarti in 140 characters or more…. The Practice of Synthetic Biology. March 12, 2010. This is the second blog post in my series on Synthetic Biology. My first post was about the promise of synthetic biology. Ie, what makes the field so fascinating). This second post is about the “practice” of synthetic biology (i.e., my experience in toying around with some of the critical tools in the field). As an unapologetic hacker. Step 1: Set an objective. The only constraint, aside from your imaginatio...
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Samidh Chakrabarti in 140 characters or more…. Posts Tagged 'dan lockton'. IFridge: A Dock for Mounting Your iPad to Your Fridge. March 9, 2010. Would make the ideal kitchen computer. Mounted on the fridge, away from all the grime of the countertop, it would be an outstanding central hub for recipes, music, family photos, calendars, and weather/news alerts. Inspired by a project I completed earlier this year, where I mounted an old laptop to my fridge. It would be a true. Here are the rough CAD rendering...
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Samidh Chakrabarti in 140 characters or more…. Posts Tagged 'data mining'. Privacy Protection Via Misinformation. March 17, 2010. The New York Times has a very informative (and scary) article. Giving an overview of how statistical data mining of information from social networks can compromise people’s private information. And pretty much anything else you’d need to compromise people’s most sensitive accounts. Spread as much misinformation as possible about yourself on the internet. March 18, 1979. Of cou...
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Samidh Chakrabarti in 140 characters or more…. March 22, 2010. That people give the term “lobbyist” is justly deserved. Too often companies use lobbyists and other political action committees to threaten politicians and undermine democracy. They try to win influence by using the power of their cash rather than the power of their ideas. But “lobbying” doesn’t have to be this way. In recent months, I’ve gotten to know the incredibly bright people in Google’s Washington DC. Google’s Policy Innovations.
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