It is cheaper to pay mathematicians and computer scientists to design algorithms that will eliminate webspamming, rather than to pay lawyers to do lawsuits.
Jennifer Tour ChayesWith a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense.
Jennifer Tour ChayesI described to my patent lawyer our new algorithm-that I was hoping to patent- about detecting clustering, that involved three probabilities α , β, γ that add-up to 1, and mentioned that it is like "a three-sided coin". A few days later he came up with a patent application for a "three-sided-coin".
Jennifer Tour ChayesTheoretical Computer Science is just as useless as everything we mathematicians do.
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