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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
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Archives
Monthly Archives: September 2008
[the making of, pt. 1] Of sausages and research papers
I’ve been meaning to do this for a while. When I get questions from students and colleagues, it is rarely relating to things I’ve found, but how I found them. How did you get that data and make sense of it? I do a poor job of explaining this, and many are unhappy when there [...]
Wait, Gore said he invented the internet?
Had to see this coming. It’s really the lowest form of debate: intentionally misconstruing the opponents’ words to make him appear foolish. So, Palin in her first major speech notes that she finds community organizing to be next to a worthless pursuit, and nobody cares. Obama says that dressing up McCain’s policies as “change” are [...]
The Quad News
Those who were following the saga of our campus paper will be pleased to know that the folks who walked out on it after administrative censorship have started up their own newspaper, The Quad News. As the Society of Professional Journalists’ FOI FYI blog notes, the difference between a genuinely independent press and a school [...]
Professor Erde Dead
Ah, Professor Erde, we hardly new ye. Well, he’s not really dead, he’s actually just being held for ransom. I was going to try to show the class Second Life tonight, but it wouldn’t let me log in. Oh, well, not the first time that’s happened. It’s been a while, so I guess I may [...]
[the making of, pt. 2] Assembling the lit review