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When I see this written, I like to take it quite literally. It means your privacy has a value, literally it is valuable to us. And thus we will monetise it. Why would we not, it has value, after all?

3:00 p.m. rise 3:05 Chivas Regal with the morning papers, Dunhills 3:45 cocaine3:50 another glass of Chivas, Dunhill 4:05 first cup of coffee, Dunhill 4:15 cocaine 4:16 orange juice, Dunhill 4:30 cocaine 4:54 cocaine 5:05 cocaine 5:11 coffee, Dunhills 5:30 more ice in the Chivas 5:45 cocaine, etc., etc. 6:00 grass to take the edge off the day ... etc ...

Super cool hack! The author uses defunctionalised continuations to build an abstract machine directly as a CTE. I guess the fixed point of the transition function is returned by the CTE ... He also alludes to using the Y combinator to build recursion in the toy language being constructed. Ace abuse of SQL.

Sadly this article - seemingly an objective mathematical treatment of tuning - is simplistic to the point of worthlessness. No mention is made of stretched tuning, inharmonicity, or psycho-acoustic treatments of tuning. I expected more from Scientific American.