Trumpets, Truths & Spittle

Summary


As the geeksters at wisegeek.com remind, an algorithm is any set of detailed instructions that result in a predictable end state from a known beginning. "Algorithms are only as good as the instructions given ... and the result will be incorrect if the algorithm is not properly defined," the web nerds note.

Welcome to the world of the incestuous, garbage-in, garbage-out relationship among those who publish bogus "most livable cities" pronouncements, cities whose usual suspects often supply the baseline "intelligence" for such bogus "studies" and media that gullibly regurgitate the garbage.

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Trumpets, Truths & Spittle

By now you've been bombarded with the word that The Economist Intelligence Unit has named Pittsburgh as the "most livable city" in the Unit...

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