The Doctor

Outlier profiles don’t get discarded. They get run through another statistical filtering step to smooth them out by eliminating the weird data points so that they’re less than a couple of standard deviations away from the core aggregate.

They can, and they do. That kind of filtering is a grad school homework project.

I used to work for a company that did the kind of data analysis AdNauseam is meant to foil. It doesn’t. If anything, it was kind of a joke around the office because the kind of junk that it throws out is easy to remove with a little statistical filtering. Just one more step in the processing pipeline.

Stick to just entering fake data when you have to enter data.

What’s the difference anymore?

They genuinely do not care anymore. We lost, just like the cypherpunks lost.

The last three or four companies I’ve worked for did. Usually a month or so in HR would want to know why I didn’t tell them about my birbsite account. They also usually asked why I didn’t update my LinkedIn page to say I was working there now.

You mean, there are places that don’t monitor their employees’ social media accounts to compare against?

I think I still have a copy of that book in a box somewhere. I know I have a scanned copy in my archive. Lots of fun.