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The Pathetic Madonna
The insane level of self-regard and idiotic self-indulgent behavior we accept from our celebrities should embarrass us. There will always be utterly spoiled brats, but that these blots on humanity…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…