After my last post about the Flesch-Kincaid Test and how it quantifies writing to a worrying degree, my online book club weekly selection just happened to be Super Crunchers by Ian Ayres.

The way the book club works (a few pages per day), I’ve only read about 5 pages of it so far, but the premise of the book is that mathematical forumlas has come so far that it can quantify just about anything, and it cites web applications like eHarmony and the recommendation systems of Netflix and Amazon as examples.  I’m waiting with interest for tomorrow’s bit to see if Ayres can convince me. (Not that I know enough about math to ever come to an informed conclusion.)

While I’m on the subject, I  really should rave about my book club. I’ve been a member for years and haven’t done it justice by recommending it far and wide. I’ll get on that soon. Until then, Happy Inauguration Day!