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Tweets
- NYT: "I would advise our readers to be good Bayesian thinkers..." As if we could be otherwise...? http://t.co/rLBUh1ib 1 hr ago
- RT @lizlosh: "If you don't know your state variables you don't know yourself" and calls to "occupy health" #futurehealthsd #quantifiedself 18 hrs ago
- Were I still a student, or pre-tenure, I would so be at the Summer Research Institute for the Science of STS: http://t.co/Vhc2cCi2 18 hrs ago
- Can't be real: http://t.co/98gVZNvA 1 day ago
- Here at Security Concepts, we're predicting the end of crime in Old Detroit within 40 days. There's a new guy in town. http://t.co/7uT6EQCR 1 day ago
- @eknight I have a bad feeling about this. 1 day ago
- If only all car commercials were this good... http://t.co/lGc8HBud #fb 2 days ago
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Monthly Archives: March 2003
Hell freezes over
Wow. It seems the news outlets have decided the administration underestimated the amount of time it would take to win. In a brief moment of bizarroland strangeness, I have to side with Rumsfeld here: only a complete idiot would have believed at any juncture that we would have won this war in a week. As [...]
A = Average ?
In the last couple of years, I’ve gotten a number of students who come to me and say something like “I didn’t get an A? What did I do wrong?” The A is the obvious grade, and a B means, to their mind, that they missed some significant requirement of the assignment. The idea that [...]
Building a whatchamacallit
Dave Winer needs spicy noodles. So, he finds it by searching his blog via Google. I think people use blogs increasingly both to remind of discrete facts, as well as of more complex (if abortive) ideas. Microsoft, among others, is trying to come up with personal diary/databases (they call theirs MyLifeBits) that would give you [...]
A not so clean slate
Iraq was at one point a rising star. Before the Iran-Iraq War, it had the highest GDP-per-capita of any country in the Middle East, comparable, as Jack Straw recently noted, to that of Malaysia and Portugal. As Dennis Halliday has noted, the situation has reversed amazingly quickly: The situation in terms of malnutrition is no [...]
Supporting the troops?
This slogan seems to have a lot of people, mainly on the right, steamed. I wonder whether those carrying the sign were aiming for hyperbole, or if they, indeed, support the actions of Hasan Akbar. The sentiment exists outside of the mainstream of peace activists because it isn’t very, um, peaceful. But since when has [...]
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