<html><body><div style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>The Washington Post has reported that Hillary Clinton's pre-election confidence was in part based on her campaign's use of a bespoke psephological algorithm, named after Ada Lovelace. Perhaps, as an episode in the history of information, this one writes itself. Nonetheless, I bet there are people on this list who have some interesting things to say about it, and if so, I for one would certainly like to hear.</div><div><br></div><div>JD Fleming</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div><span name="x"></span><div><span data-mce-style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">J</span><span face="tahoma, new york, times, serif" data-mce-style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif;" style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif;">ames Dougal Fleming<br>Associate Professor<br>Department of English<br>Simon Fraser University</span></div><div>778-782-4713</div><div><span size="1" data-mce-style="font-size: xx-small;" style="font-size: xx-small;"><br></span><div><span><span face="tahoma, new york, times, serif" data-mce-style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif;" style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif;">Burnaby -- </span></span>British Columbia -- Canada.</div><div><br></div><div><em><span style="font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-size: small;">Incipiamus.</span></em></div><div><em><span style="font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-size: small;"> </span></em><span style="font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-size: small;"></span><em><span style="font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-size: small;"><br></span></em></div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20px; font-family: Times; color: #202020; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #202020; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20px; font-family: Times; color: #202020; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #202020; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> <span style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span></span></span></p><div><br></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-size: small;"><em><span face="tahoma, new york, times, serif" style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif;"><br></span></em></span></div></div></div><span name="x"></span><br></div></div></body></html>