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Feed Changes 1 Jul 2013 | 03:01 am
1) In case you find yourself in an acute panic looking for a last-minute alternative for GR, I am now using Feedly as my RSS reader. I haven't used it enough to recommend it one way or another, but im...
Magic Is Measurable 8 Oct 2012 | 08:54 am
Matthew McIntosh tweeted this and alerted me to the blog of a young woman who I never met, Courtney Arthur. She recently died in a bike accident. The whole poem Matthew was referencing is nice: whate...
The Embryology Of Spin 13 Sep 2012 | 03:03 am
Yavchitz et al. looked at which factors correlated with the presence of "spin" in the reporting of medical randomized control trials. Spin is emphasizing the benefits of a treatment more than is appro...
The Trade-Offs Of Publicizing Your Goals 5 Sep 2012 | 04:14 am
In Ben Casnocha's reflections on writing his book The Start-Up Of You, he mentions this tidbit: When you embark on a project that’s going to take awhile, you have to decide how much to publicize the ...
In Praise Of The Obvious, Pt 2 31 Aug 2012 | 08:28 am
Scott Aaronson explains the usefulness of the Church-Turing thesis in a way that makes intuitive sense to me, a newbie to TCS. Awesome! That kind of post is why I love subscribing to his blog. The com...
Book Review: Great Flicks By Dean Simonton 25 Jul 2012 | 07:08 am
Attention conservation notice: Review and notes from a book discussing an academic topic that will likely only interest you insofar as it generalizes to other topics, unless you are both a huge stats ...
Statistics Is Like Medicine, Not Software 21 Jul 2012 | 09:22 am
Stats questions--even when they're pure cut-and-dried homework--require dialog. Medicine might be a better analogy than software: what competent doctor will prescribe a remedy immediately after hearin...
The Psychosocial Costs Of Ambition 9 Jul 2012 | 10:23 am
If I had accepted that leadership role, there would have been a lot of pressure on me to do something really exciting. I can sometimes do exciting things, but I can't do them on demand. My energy leve...
Is *Any* Human Activity Long-Run Sustainable? 7 Jul 2012 | 11:30 am
Intensive rice agriculture began in the Yangtze basin about 8,000 years BP, a sustainable model for agriculture by any reasonable standard. The extensive water infrastructure network around Chengdu, C...
The Meaning Of The Mean 5 Jul 2012 | 06:21 am
Bob Carpenter has a few enlightening thoughts on the distinctions between 1) the sample mean, 2) the expected value of a random variable, and 3) the mean of a distribution. I've long been confused by ...
