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More essential reading
A busy week, with many sending in links and ideas. Thanks everybody! Art That's art, folks. I finally figured out how to get pictures off my crappy phone, so this…
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Some pieces you should see
Wired article on copulas Reader Scott Bury forwarded this article from Wired on the probability function that many used to quantify the risk of certain financial instruments. You can think…
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You have no choice but to read this
Your decisions are not your own Our gut instinct, our experience, is that we make the decisions to move, to think, to eat, to steal, to lie, to punch and…
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I was wrong about wishcasting the election
I made a mistake when I wrote about wishcasting in the McCain-Obama presidential election. I'd like to thank Patrick Hadley for keeping up his criticisms which led to me to…
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We’ll miss you, Paul Harvey
Those of us who love radio love the human voice. Few, if any, voices were as beautiful as Paul Harvey's. I can remember listening to him when I was a…
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RSS content feed still busted; comments ok
The RSS content feed still has an extra space in it somewhere. I have checked many, many files, used a plug-in that automatically cycles through files to remove heading and…
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Peer review
Here is how peer review roughly works. An author sends a paper to a journal. An editor nearly always sends the paper on to two or more referees. The referees…
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I suppose Apple—corporation—would be happy
Sigh. I wonder why these Enlightened souls bother with school. They have already told themselves that they know everything there is worth knowing. The only other thing worth noting---the video…