Circuit City's latest challenge strolled in to the company's Rockville Pike store yesterday about 10 a.m. His name: Glen Howard. His target: a 32-inch Samsung flat-screen television. The price he saw at Best Buy: $499. The Circuit City price: $499....

Circuit City's latest challenge strolled in to the company's Rockville Pike store yesterday about 10 a.m. His name: Glen Howard. His target: a 32-inch Samsung flat-screen television. The price he saw at Best Buy: $499. The Circuit City price: $499....

Via Jeff Jonas, who oh-so-carefully assessed the treatment he received in Stephen Baker’s book The Numerati , I came across this NPR interview with Baker. In the latter part of the interview, Baker discusses pretty accurately Jonas’ dissent from the passion for predictive data mining in ...