Our title comes from a famous paper by Lester Dubbins and Leonard Savage which appeared at the beginning of the Bayesian Theoretical Resurgence, a movement which, I am delighted to…
I'm at Cornell, teaching my now-annual statistics course to a group who have come up from the city and are there enrolled in a Masters program. Cornell requires students to…
The story is confusing, but Derek Jeter's tailor is having legal difficulties. Either Ramchandani, who is the tailor, or one of his ex-pupils is having immigration troubles. Judging by the…
Conversation was thick at the Cigar Inn today. Mostly over lunatic James W. von Brunnm who walked into Washington, D.C.'s Holocaust museum and murdered guard Stephen T. Johns, who had…
For reasons that are obvious to all, I have have been studying the imminent arrival of the apocalypse. Whether you are a Christian millenarian, or you thought the Mayans were…
There is a charming myth among idealists that before industrialization and its accoutrements, such as patriarchy and pollution, mankind lived an entirely peaceful existence. That is, there was no war.…
This week's Science (29 May edition) has an unintentionally hilarious short piece. Seems Auburn, California wanted to name a park after local-boy-done-good William Shockley, the guy who invented the transistor.…