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Tuesday, April 22, 2003 

This seems to me to be interesting, but potentially dangerous; not in itself, but in how people might misinterpret what it means. To wit, although the method talked about does seem pretty robust, and certainly fascinating, you can't solve personal problems with math. Not that the article says that you can, but people sometimes take this sort of advance to mean that.



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