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A subtle difference
These plaques were placed outside the doors of a toilet in a train station on the outskirts of Taipei. Even with my lack of Chinese, I managed to go to…
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A new cure for insomnia
Just so you don't think it's all work and no play around here, I wanted to show you how we statisticians really unwind and let go. We write papers that…
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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…
Posted inPhilosophy
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…
I don’t know if it’s irony, but it is funny
A bunch of people have gathered in Washington DC today to protest global warming. Well, a presumed cause of it: coal burning. Here are two relevant images: The lesson is…
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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…
