Just as I discussed the decreasing revenue of Atlantic City Casinos in our previous blog posts, today I came up with more news about casinos losing their revenue share. Why are casinos from a few states showing declines in their revenues?

The March issue of Wired magazine has an interesting article about a relatively new method of generating high-quality images from relatively low-quality samples. The technique, known as compressed sensing or compressed sampling, is in some sense an inversion of the more familiar process of data compression.

I wonder if we're barking up the wrong tree (or down the wrong hole) when we obsess about "curation" of news " a favorite topic of mainstream media preservationists. Maybe what we need is to see explainers as advocates of our curiosity about the deep questions, or deep facts, such that they might become unavoidable in news coverage.

Five, ten years from now, all the rest of the independent ISPs and WISPs will be gone. So will backbone players other than carriers and Google. We'll be gaga about our ability to watch pay-per-view on our fourth-generation iPads with 3-d glasses. And we won't miss the countless new and improved businesses that never happened because they were essentially outlawed by regulators and their captors.

When the next Darfur, Rwanda, or Bosnia takes place, the fate of civilians won't depend on armies in green or warlords seeing red. It will rest with the men in grey suits who gather on 1st Avenue in New York. In the backrooms of the United Nations, diplomats from the great powers will gather, wring their hands, and ask themselves: what should the international community do when a state massacres its own citizens?

At 60 years old, Gil Scott-Heron has a new album out, his first in 16 years. I'm New Here was released by independent label XL Recordings in early February. Work began on the album in 2007 after Scott-Heron's release from prison on drug charges.

Professor Steven Strogatz of Cornell has published another installment in his mathematics series in the Opinionator blog at the New York Times. In this post, he talks about solving for X, as he promised last time; this is just another way of referring to the process of finding the roots of an algebraic equation.

The Green Knight is a character in a story of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table. The Green Knight rides into their hall, in Jessie Weston's translation. Although it draws on rich tradition, the story itself was composed by a single writer, a contemporary of Chaucer's who is generally known as the "the Gawain Poet" or the "Pearl Poet."

In addition to the patches it released earlier today, Microsoft has confirmed that it is investigating another security vulnerability in its Internet Explorer Web browser. The flaw is potentially a serious one, since under certain conditions it could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code remotely.

Regular readers and Windows users will be all too familiar with the monthly process of installing the latest security updates for Windows and Office from Microsoft. But what about all the other programs that you may have on your computer?

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