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World Cup, Statistics, Movie Lines, Cracked, and Clubbing

USA 1, Small Island Nation 1 Fabio Capello, pictured left, shows us the tracks his tears took after Robert Green revealed his American sympathies by suspiciously letting a shot through---a…

Statistics

Last Class

It was the Nines last night. Pizza, beer, and wine, followed by sketchy music. A definite conceit of statistics is its habit of declaring with something-approaching-certainty that this or that…

Culture Fun

More Bad Music; Class Wrap-Up; Go USA

Way Behind Back Thanks to everybody who stuck through the lectures, such as they were, for the last two weeks. I wrote these "lessons" over about a twenty-minute period each…

Fun

Maybe your parents were right

They dropped the charges against that poor eighth-grade kid who was caught with a dollar bag of Skittles somewhere up in Connecticut. I'm not so sure that this is a…

Statistics

Homework #1: Answer part I

A couple of days ago I gave out homework. I asked my loyal readers to count how many people walked by them and to keep track of how many of…

Philosophy

Stats 101: Chapter 6

It was one of those days yesterday. I got two chapters up, but did not give anybody a way to get them! Here it is These are the last two…

Fun

Ithaca update: hours and dogs as presidential candidates

The Ithaca Hours, mentioned in the previous post, quantify a barter system, trading "hours worked" at one task for equivalent "hours worked" at another. For example, you might trade one…

Philosophy

Wired’s theory: the end of theory

Chris Anderson, over at Wired magazine, has written an article called The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete. Anderson, whose thesis is that we no…

John McKeon on More On Monkeys Typing Shakespeare & Why Chance Isn’t EnoughJanuary 19, 2025
Uncle Mike's comment deserves some sort of award. Completely off topic: https://blog.bracha.org is an novel new blog platform written in…
Cookie on More On Monkeys Typing Shakespeare & Why Chance Isn’t EnoughJanuary 17, 2025
Could the figure be reduced through incentives. A raisin drops down a shute when a word is produced? Or will…
gamecockjerry on Register Your Predictions For 2025!January 17, 2025
1. My selection for this year's dead pool is Nancy Pelosi. 2. Trump begins deporting criminal illegal aliens, but falls…
John Pate on England’s Rulers Insist Natives Must Assimilate To “Migrants”January 17, 2025
Given the shenigans around the attempt to engineer The Great Reset by the powers that be I suspect we should…
Brian (bulaore ) on More On Monkeys Typing Shakespeare & Why Chance Isn’t EnoughJanuary 16, 2025
Hey Briggs Some monkies ain't typing at all. What gives? While I'm munching on chicharrones and enjoying the afternoon, I…