Accept these silly GIFs in lieu of a post. I'd've had something meatier, but events overtook. First, I spent two days fixing code that was, after all, giving me the…

https://twitter.com/NinjaEconomics/status/730854730335846400 (If you can't see the picture embedded in the tweet, click here for the original.) The axes are "Percent of men non-employed" by "Percent of births to unmarried women".…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbf_TXqEY-Y Our friend Jane Orient, lead doc at Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, put out the release below, in which she very kindly mentions Yours Truly. The AAPS runs…

There is a hierarchy of models in the sense they offer insight into the thing modeled. The order of importance is: causal, deterministic, probabilistic, statistical. Most models use mixtures of…

There is a discussion of infinity and an argument to return to the discrete and finite in my upcoming book Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics. Infinity is…