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		<title>Hip Hop / Rapper Collaboration Network</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m working on a research project with some students at Maine East High School, here in Chicagoland. We&#8217;re using the dataset that Reggie Smith at MIT provided to me freely that he uses in his paper: The Network of Collaboration Among Rappers and its Community Structure. To have the student conjecture about network properties, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tomhayden3.com/blog/?p=238</link>
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		<title>Computational Complexity &amp; Linguistics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the books that I am working through this summer in preparation for the Fall&#8217;s classes is Michael Sipser&#8217;s Introduction to the Theory of Computing.  I chose to read this book after reading chapters 1 and 2 of the excellent (but hard) Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach by Sanjeev Arora and Boaz Barak.   Thanks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tomhayden3.com/blog/?p=233</link>
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		<title>Problem Based Learning &amp; Ideo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent the last three days at a Teachers Workshop in the Maine School District on a pedagogical tool, problem based learning (PBL).  Those of us in higher education (especially engineers) are familiar with the subject, although you probably call it something else. Briefly, the concept is: teach some material by presenting a &#8220;messy&#8221; problem [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tomhayden3.com/blog/?p=228</link>
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		<title>Google/Verizon Apologetics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re not familiar with the current Google/Verizon Net Neutrality Drama &#8211; read this good and brief article by Jonathan Zittrain. As an aside, I heard him debate Bruce Schneier in an Oxford-style debate some months ago on the topic of, &#8220;Is the Internet Security Threat Overblown?&#8221; He is a professor and I&#8217;m not sure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tomhayden3.com/blog/?p=225</link>
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		<title>Back to the P!=NP Proof</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an earlier blog post a week ago, I mentioned that there was a possible proof which answered the long-time open CS theory question: does P = NP? The researcher claimed to have shown that P is not equal to NP in a  100 page proof.  The proof used complexity concepts that I am just not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tomhayden3.com/blog/?p=222</link>
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		<title>Movie Trailers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, I saw the trailer for the upcoming film &#8220;Social Network&#8221; &#8211; about Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook.  You can watch it below: This morning, ironically on her twitter danah boyd (@zephoria) posted a link to this parody about twitter. Hilarious. As someone who researches social networks, I&#8217;m not sure what I think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tomhayden3.com/blog/?p=218</link>
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		<title>2010 Fantasy Football</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is August now, which means I start preparing for this year&#8217;s fantasy football season. Now that my old UM blog is defunct, I am going to bombard all of my personal blog readers with insights into this year&#8217;s fantasy football season.  My insights are mostly academic, I&#8217;m interested in statistical analysis and developing machine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tomhayden3.com/blog/?p=207</link>
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		<title>Facebook &amp; Random Stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After my last rant about Facebook&#8217;s crappy php-sdk, I gave up on using PHP for facebook applications and switched over to their new Facebook Connect / Javascript SDK.  For a multitude of reasons, I strongly dislike javascript so I was a little reluctant. This API is also poorly documented but at least there are more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tomhayden3.com/blog/?p=204</link>
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		<title>An Open Letter to Facebook.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello Facebook.  I remember a hot August night a few years ago when you first launched your apps platform. At the time, it was a pretty revolutionary idea; give developers access to your user&#8217;s data and see what kind of fun programs they can hack up.  I was so excited, I ordered a pizza and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tomhayden3.com/blog/?p=200</link>
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		<title>Proof that P != NP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night at 10:30pm, I was clicking through my twitter feed and read a tweet by Lance Fortnow on the apparent proof that P is not equal to NP.  For those of my friends who are not computer scientists &#8211; this is the biggest unsolved problem in our field.  The person that can show that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tomhayden3.com/blog/?p=198</link>
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