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“Time to Die” Samsung cell phone message
I have a Samsung SGH-A707 cell phone. One of the free ones from AT&T/Cingular for signing a contract. It is a piece of junk and I can't recommend it. But…
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Start squirreling away nuts?
[Update: yes, there has been a title change. The old one was stupid.] The other day, some weather geek friends of mine and I were exchanging emails about the early…
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More forecasting: Obama’s Loss Traced To William Briggs
A friend sent this: Say, if the Big O does win, will MoveOn.com change its name? To, maybe, StayWhereYouAre.com?
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Probability of McCain win
This is a bit of a preview of a paper my friend Russ Zaretzki are working on. Take a gander at his pic: This is the probability that John McCain…
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Stand by!
My book is coming! It's almost there, so let me tell you how modern math publishing works these days. The author of course writes the work, and we all do…
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An early start to the “holiday” season
From the Wall Street Journal comes the headline: "Retailers Expect Gloomy Holiday." Problem is, I have read the entire article---these kinds of stories seem to appear earlier and earlier every…
Anybody see this one?
The book is The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey and Steve Ziliak. From the description at Amazon:…
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Health care crisis!?
Take a look at his picture: This is from an article by "The Numbers Guy" Carl Bialik at the Wall Street Journal. The story is about how life expectancy calculators…