[podcast]https://www.wmbriggs.com/audio/wmbriggs_com_lecture_0001.mp3[/podcast] First lecture: I'm away to a conference this week, and so thought it would be fun to start a lecture series Understanding Statistics and Probability (this is posting automatically---I'll…

What's to stop a large bloc of voters from joining forces to create laws so that they get a free ride, that they, in effect, make everybody else pay their…

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Today's guest post is from William J Briggs, my number one son. Note that it's J and not M: he's named after my father. Last night NYC was host to…

Warning: I don't write the headlines of stories that link here. First, I checked. Nobody uses "stat" in emergency rooms anymore. A chief told me that he couldn't remember the…

In the last post, reader George suggested a challenge to see whether or not short poem codes would be easy to "break"; that is, decrypt without access to the original…