Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Some good news for the new year

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From Mental Floss : In September, a cryptic update to cartoonist Gary Larson’s The Far Side website hinted that something new might b...
Monday, December 30, 2019

Monday Tweets (because spending New Year's Eve on Twitter would just be wrong)

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Welcome to the world of climate gentrification. "Little Haiti’s elevation  is 7 feet above sea level with pockets in the neighborhood...
Friday, December 27, 2019

"East of Lincoln"-- updated

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Now with soundtrack. Monday, April 9, 2018 I've never been a beach person. There are (or at least used to be) some exceptio...
Thursday, December 26, 2019

American political journalism is better than has been in a quarter century.

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No snark. No qualifiers. One of the good things to come out of the past few years was that events have forced journalists to finally sta...
Wednesday, December 25, 2019

White Christmas in LA -- drive carefully

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Probably later today... One of the many things I didn't expect when I moved to LA early in the 2000s was that I would still hav...

Merry Christmas from Little Nemo

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It's the thought that counts

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Tuesday, December 24, 2019

"Albert and Pogo's Christmas" by Walt Kelly

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Monday, December 23, 2019

Sixties television was filled with heart-warming Christmas episodes often featuring orphans

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The Untouchables got a lot of criticism during its original run for its depictions of violence. Can't imagine why.
Friday, December 20, 2019

"The unicorn is a mythical beast."

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I realized that now when I hear the word "unicorn," I think of a tech bro pitching a 21st Century Ponzi scheme to some clueless ve...
Thursday, December 19, 2019

Revisiting the catharsis thread

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Recent events have got me thinking about this point from four years ago. I've been arguing for quite a while now that we need to pay mo...
Wednesday, December 18, 2019

If you've gone through the holidays without hearing "Sugar Rum Cherry"...

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 ... you have not had a cool Christmas.
Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Tuesday Tweets

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Starting with some news you can use. You've got to be kidding me. After all these years... pic.twitter.com/dhNgjCVzeG — Chuck B ...
Monday, December 16, 2019

More on data science

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This is Joseph This is an excellent article on machine learning. In particular I liked this: As an extreme illustration, an algorithm ...
Friday, December 13, 2019

Choice of metric: the perils of data science

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This is Joseph I was reading this article and I decided it was a good example of how the choice of metrics can really change the answer t...
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