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pari passu

A subsequent coolness, pari passu with the dotcom billionaire’s revenue growth no doubt, is said to’ve developed

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—p.54 by Thomas Pynchon
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what happened to revenge of the nerds?

“Sad thing is, is ’ere’s enough code monkeys around who’ll just go jumpin in blind, fodder for the machine.”

“They’re not any smarter than that? What happened to revenge of the nerds?”

Driscoll snorts. “Is no revenge of the nerds, you know what, last year when everything collapsed, all it mea…

—p.48 by Thomas Pynchon
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what happened to revenge of the nerds?

“Sad thing is, is ’ere’s enough code monkeys around who’ll just go jumpin in blind, fodder for the machine.”

“They’re not any smarter than that? What happened to revenge of the nerds?”

Driscoll snorts. “Is no revenge of the nerds, you know what, last year when everything collapsed, all it mea…

—p.48 by Thomas Pynchon
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Maxine improvises

“My boss thinks they might’ve been double-billing us,” Maxine improvises, “we did stop the last check, but somebody thought we should introduce a personal note. I happened to be in screaming distance.”

—p.44 by Thomas Pynchon
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Benford’s Law as a fraud examiner’s tool

Though it’s been around in some form for a century and more, Benford’s Law as a fraud examiner’s tool is only beginning to surface in the literature. The idea is, somebody wants to phony up a list of numbers but gets too cute about randomizing it. They assume that the first digits, 1 through 9, are…

—p.41 by Thomas Pynchon