Author Archives: anewc2

RSS in the news, twice in one day

Posted on 2018 December 28 by anewc2

From cogdogblog and Patreon.

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Statistics for Hackers, or, Hacking for Statisticians

Posted on 2018 November 22 by anewc2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq9DzN6mvY using Direct simulation Shuffling Bootstrapping Cross-validation Note that the resampling book by Julian Simon is out of print, but available online.

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Weak Corporate Governance

Posted on 2018 November 8 by anewc2

https://qz.com/work/1130589/there-are-624-public-companies-with-no-women-on-their-boards-heres-the-list/

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Trump, Puerto Rico, and debt

Posted on 2018 November 8 by anewc2

Trump is trumpeting where he is going with respect to Puerto Rico: privatizing the whole place because of their crushing debt. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/getting-ready-for-trumps-puerto-rico-shakedown Trump is responsible for some of that debt: will he pay it back? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-puerto-rico-owe-33-million-golf-club-bankrupt-coco-beach-golf-club-a7970201.html Note how the Independent … Continue reading →

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Placebo Effect

Posted on 2018 November 8 by anewc2

I have wondered about this for a long time.

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Trip Planning Technology

Posted on 2018 November 8 by anewc2

https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/28/15921842/how-to-plan-a-vacation-travel-apps-flight-deals-abroad

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Kavanaugh’s lies

Posted on 2018 October 1 by anewc2

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/10/brett-kavanaughs-lies-perjury-nomination-killed.html

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Is Earth’s magnetic field flipping? Maybe.

Posted on 2018 August 13 by anewc2

https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/5347/to-understand-magnetism-is-to-understand-how-the-universe-and-earth-came-to-be Thanks to Naked Capitalism for the link.

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Did Robert E. Lee bring any slaves with him to the field during the Civil War?

Posted on 2018 July 6 by anewc2

Yes and no. from https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Lee_Robert_E_and_Slavery: Yes, early in the war: “in a letter to his brother Charles Carter Lee, dated March 14, 1862, he praised the Confederacy as ‘the noble cause we are engaged in,’ and kept two of the … Continue reading →

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Half a billion years of continental drift

Posted on 2018 June 14 by anewc2

https://kottke.org/18/06/how-the-earths-continents-will-look-250-million-years-from-now

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