How to filter out Categories for specific post types on WordPress Admin?

I went down the rabbit hole with this a few weeks ago. Never quite got it working right.

These might lead you in the right direction:

http://shibashake.com/wordpress-theme/add-custom-post-type-columns

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-column-for-custom-post-types?replies=3

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