Interesting combinatorics finding:
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/26/0037258
I'd not heard of the Golomb ruler before but after grokking it, it
seems to me a fascinating problem that likely occurs in many scenarios.
It's a bit disappointing that:
"It has been proven that
Well, OK, "bad data" is a "smoking gun" for why the regulators didn't see it
coming. One question is why it looks like people are finding so very
many different "smoking guns" that show signs of having been just used to
shoot ourselves in the foot.
The common thread for me is our deeply
