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I'm curious what folks are watching these days. I started looking at Numb3rs which I think is interesting. In the episodes I've seen, the protagonist used a combination of facility location algorithms, neural nets and some machine learning to catch the bad guy.:D
 
I like Fringe, too.

Never could get into Numb3ers. It seemed to me to do for math / statistics what CSI does for forensic science: Endow it with magical powers that confer near-omniscience on its practitioners. It's sort of a science-as-magic, or even -religion, premise that not only grates on my nerves but also gives a really false sense of how difficult even seemingly simple things can be. It fosters either complacency or resentment in those who don't understand the field, I think, and breeds serious misconceptions about how the world actually is.
 
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