more writing

Spent my research time today cleaning up my class2008 proceedings, which is now a full-on polemic about massive data analysis. In the process, I learned something about minimum message length in Bayesian model selection; we have been using this but I didn't know how rich the subject is (though I don't like the persistent comment that it encodes Occam's razor—another good subject for a polemic). On the airplane to Germany I will have to convert all this into a talk.