I keep seeing people anxious for the end of 2020, as if January 1st was a Rubicon that the shit-storm of 2020 won’t follow us across. Let me disabuse you of any such notion. Really, what do you expect to change in 2021? Will global warming be solved? Will corporate concentration disappear? Will income inequality be solved? Will structural racism vanish overnight? Do you expect the GOP to suddenly disavow Trump, back away from fascism, and relinquish Q-Anon?

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Thoughts on the election of Joe Biden. First, let’s admit it’s pretty amazing that Biden won. If you look historically at US Presidential elections all the forces were tilted toward a Trump win: Trump was an incumbent, which is a huge advantage. The economy was doing good. We had a national catastrophe (Covid) and Americans traditionally rally around the President when faced with such adversity, just think of Bush’s rise in popularity after the 9-11 attacks.

Some random thoughts before the final day of voting in the 2020 US Presidential election: At least now more people realize the importance of politics. “How bad could it be?” may have gotten him into the office, but “Oh, that bad!” will probably remove him. The press, at least the legitimate press, like CNN and the NYTimes, finally overcame their crippling addiction to falling for every single Trump troll.

Here are two great talks by Google engineers on dealing with large sets of data and how they can be used to improve your product. The first is a talk by Peter Norvig - The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data: The point of the talk is that having more data is better than having a more clever algorithm. And you can see this in action in this second talk by Douglas Merrill.