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Marshall Spight wrote:
> Kenneth Downs wrote:
> 
>> I wrote an essay on that some months ago, which is here:
>>
>>http://docs.secdat.com/index.php?gppn=Normalization+and+Automation
> 
> 
> Ken,
> 
> I read that essay, then I read the other one:
> 
> http://docs.secdat.com/index.php?gppn=Data+is+More+Valuable+Than+Code
> 
> It looks to me as if the first sentence of paragraph two has a dramatic
> typo. (If by some chance it's not a typo, it needs a much better
> explanation :-)
> 
> 
> Marshall
> 

I didn't catch the typo, but the whole first paragraph seems like 
wishful thinking.  Lots of people know they have crappy data which was 
derived by crappy code.

p