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Oscar Predictions: Money, Men, & Maturity Make The Difference

Last year, my number two son1 and I created a model to predict the Oscar winning movie (the original post, and the follow up). We found the following characteristics most…

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Interview With A Climatologist

Today, an exclusive interview with famed international climatologist Dr Arturo Calor. Dr Calor is leading the scientific fight against man-made global warming. Thank you for being with us, Dr Calor.…

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How To Find True Love: The Marriage Problem

MEB + ARK, a.k.a. the Haystack Hunters, wrote the following: As fans of your work in real life probability and breaking the law of averages, we were hoping you could…

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Should Scientists Be Held Legally Responsible for Their Results?

That title is lifted from Popular Science's brief article. The idea is that scientists---as philosopher Christopher Essex reminded me, just like doctors and accountants and businessmen and engineers and everybody…

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Obama Wants Statisticians!

"Politics as done by Martians." That's Peggy Noonan's phrase, to describe President Obama's call for and use of statisticians and data miners in his re-election campaign. The hiring of such…

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Traveling Day Quiz

Off once again into the wild blue yonder. So today a quiz, inspired by the Cnet article whose over-stated title is "Researchers build DNA neural network that thinks." The piece…

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Occupy Sacramento!

The movement began with a rally on the Capitol steps, then proceeded by parade to Cesar Chavez park, at 10th and J streets, where it mingled with the folks…

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Predictions For 2011. How’d We do?

Last January 1st I asked for everybody to provide verifiable predictions for the year. Time for reckoning! Tomorrow I'll ask us to provide predictions for 2012, so hold off on…

Paul Murphy on Look Here, @elonmusk, What Mendacious Hack Or Incompetent Flack Murdered This Tweet?April 25, 2024
Further,.. after writing the comment above I put some ribs in the smoker and have been watching the thing ever…
Cary D Cotterman on Look Here, @elonmusk, What Mendacious Hack Or Incompetent Flack Murdered This Tweet?April 25, 2024
So, even on Musk's Twitter ("X", whatever), it's forbidden to quote what a prominent historical figure historically akshually said?
Cary D Cotterman on Look Here, @elonmusk, What Mendacious Hack Or Incompetent Flack Murdered This Tweet?April 25, 2024
I was kicked off Twitter for specious reasons and tried appealing, over and over. The responses I got, when I…
John Pate on Look Here, @elonmusk, What Mendacious Hack Or Incompetent Flack Murdered This Tweet?April 25, 2024
I got banned from twatter and refused reinstatement for unspecified crimes. The proximate tweet was an assertion the NHS is…
Paul Murphy on Look Here, @elonmusk, What Mendacious Hack Or Incompetent Flack Murdered This Tweet?April 25, 2024
umm, doc? I have two pieces of what you need most here - unsolicited advice. 1 - the use of…