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Introduction: The hunch.net server has been updated. I’ve taken the opportunity to upgrade the version of wordpress which caused cascading changes. Old threaded comments are now flattened. The system we used to use ( Brian’s threaded comments ) appears incompatible with the new threading system built into wordpress. I haven’t yet figured out a workaround. I setup a feedburner account . I added an RSS aggregator for both Machine Learning and other research blogs that I like to follow. This is something that I’ve wanted to do for awhile. Many other minor changes in font and format, with some help from Alina . If you have any suggestions for site tweaks, please speak up.
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