Friday, January 30, 2015

Electronic voting

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Another problem with single point of failure solutions (and another video from the same author, who seems to be paranoid about trusting peop...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

What's the big deal about an indictment?

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I am a regular reader of Esquire's political blogger Charles Pierce but I am always cautious about citing him on our blog. Pierce is op...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Great man theory of history: a counter example

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One of the persistent ideas that shows up again and again in history (and even in debate about modern social construction) is the idea of th...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

What if Google forgot about passwords?

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This was an interesting thought experiment I thought it made a rather good point about just how interconnected everything on the web is...
Monday, January 26, 2015

Infrastructure maintance and suburban development

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One does not normally think of suburban developments as being financially bad ideas.  I often see these building patterns as contributing to...
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Friday, January 23, 2015

Double bonus false-equivalence points at the New York Times

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Reading this David Leonhardt piece ( Letter From the Editor: Marriage, and When Liberals Are Wrong ) is like watching the Three Stooges work...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

“Epidemiology and Biostatistics: competitive or complementary?”

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From Andrew Gelman : To return to epidemiology vs. biostatistics: it’s my impression that there’s a lot of forward causal inference and a ...
Wednesday, January 21, 2015

When a guy from College Humor does a TED talk... no, really

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As far as I can tell, this is an actual TEDx Talk . I can understand why the compulsively trendy crowd behind these events would want to ass...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

The War on Data Continues

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Andrew Gelman and I wrote a piece for the ASA a while back called " The War on Data ." It discussed what appears to be a disturbin...
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Monday, January 19, 2015

“History of the memo”

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I've been arguing for a while now that the shiny-object school of technology reporting isn't just annoying; it does real damage. We...
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Friday, January 16, 2015

The Road to Bakersfield

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A few weeks ago I drove up to Bakersfield for the day. I'd been meaning to make the trip for a while, but the immediate impetus was a se...
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The perils of being overly tax aggressive

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Wow.   Just wow. Josh Marshall : Which brings us back to Roger Ver, variously known as a "Bitcoin entrepreneur" or the "...
Thursday, January 15, 2015

Visualizing a different kind of data

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I particularly liked the way he handled the dynamics. Definitely one for the Monday videos . First Arabesque, by Claude Debussy, performe...

This could almost get me to start listening to the TED radio hour

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Another sharp and well-observed clip from College Humor.
Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Plagiarism -- repeat offendees

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Alex Toth was perhaps the artist's artist in the field of comics and animation. For decades, if you asked people in the industry to name...
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