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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 3 days ago
- More updates...
Archives
Monthly Archives: July 2004
YABS
Yet Another Blogging Survey: Prospecting the Blogosphere. At some point, we will hit respondent fatigue. Given that, I wish that these surveys were getting at a narrower, theory-driven focus. The last thing we need is more demographic data, and more “why do you blog” questions. (Unless, of course, that is the actual point of the [...]
The best defense
Glancing at my server logs for the last month, I notice that my traffic more than doubled during the month of June. “Cool,” I think, “my amazingly incisive posts must be drawing in an ever-widening audience.” Then, very quickly, the truth becomes clear. Most of the growth is due to robots hitting my wiki, in [...]
I am a golden god
I’ve given up all pretenses of this being a real blog. It’s all about the quiz. Here’s an extraordinarily incisive example: 20 questions to a better personality (from Kara, as usual). Me: You are a WRCL–Wacky Rational Constructive Leader. This makes you a golden god. People gravitate to you, and you make them feel good. [...]
My thoughts are public domain?
Blacklily8 writes that books and articles written by professors at state institutions should be barred from copyright protection: This whole affair is really no different than state highway workers deciding to sell traffic cones on eBay. No one would have a problem calling that theft, yet we tend to side-step the issue when it arises [...]
My TTCI
My Terry Teachout Cultural Index is 68. (See jump for breakout.)
What if…
What if we gave an Independence Day gift to the new Iraqi Government: our own Declaration. I mean, we don’t really use it any more, and we wouldn’t have to give them all of it. Just the best parts: When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the [...]
Declare yourself