In working with clusters, I was reminded of the old statistics saw that “correlation does not necessitate causation” (or something to that effect). The point being, among other things, that just because clusters are identified does not mean that there is any underlying meaning behind the clusters. Unsurprisingly, what sounds at first glance like a [...]

Once I started really looking at this, I was utterly amazed at how it affects every aspect of our interaction with computers. And how it has become, in essence, more noise to be ignored than useful. Spell-Check / Autocorrect — Everywhere, everyday. Occasionally useful in word processing, less useful and more annoying in GMail, genuinely [...]