Stumble !

I was first told about Stumble Upon a couple of months ago, but I resisted creating an account. I knew that if I made an account I would waste copious amounts of my time. For those of you who don't know, StumbleUpon is a site that essentially allows you to surf the internet. It presents you with webpages that it belives you will find interesting based on what other users have said and your own interests. You can even filter what topic you would like the recommendation engine to search for in a website.

Yesterday I gave in to my boredom and created an account. At the moment I have stumbled through 302 different websites and favorited 55 of them. One of the most interesting to date was a website with a video explaining Benford's Law. I had never heard of it before but it really is fasicinating. Benford's Law states that in list of numerical data the first digits are not distributed evenly. In fact one is always the most frequently occuring leading digit with two-nine occur less frequently. The Benford's Law curve is a curve with a decreasing slope. When looking at any natural data, such as birthrates in a town, the data very closely fits Benford's curve. The law is useful in figuring out whether or not data has been tampered with.

Video Explaining Benford's Law that I stumbled upon.

http://videos.kirix.com/data-and-the-web/2008-07-22-benfords-law/2008-07-22-benfords-law.htm

If you want to see what other website I enjoyed, you can check out my profile on the StumbleUpon website. My username is rt24601. Here is a direct link to my profile http://rt24601.stumbleupon.com/favorites/.

Bonus Points to whoever can tell me the signifigance of the numbers in my username.