December 2011
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My daughter turns 3.
Dec 12th
April 2010
1 post
Why I stopped reading Thomas Friedman
On January 19, 2007: Well, so much for our daffodils! They all bloomed in our front yard last week. They now form a nice bright yellow cluster at the bottom of our driveway. Temperatures of 65 degrees in Washington in January will do that…. [W]hen I see things in nature that I’ve never seen in my life, like daffodils blooming in January, it starts to feel creepy, like a “Twilight Zone”...
Apr 8th
December 2008
0 posts
Holiday Chocolate Contest! →
Jana, owner of my favorite parenting blog and spouse of my favorite Houston-based bioinformatician, is running a blog comment contest to win free yummy chocolates. I’ve had these chocolates before, and have one thing to say about them (when I’m done chewing, of course): “Move over, Neuhaus.”
Dec 1st
October 2008
2 posts
Oct 19th
Oct 19th
September 2008
1 post
Sep 9th
August 2008
1 post
AdFreak: Then we'll grab a bite at 404 Not Found →
Aug 3rd
July 2008
3 posts
Paradigm shift on my morning commute →
Pissed that I got stuck in Cross-Bronx traffic for 45 minutes at 6:30 am, that feeling was abruptly replaced with deep remorse that the wreckage I drove by resulted in a death. So cruelly random. And I just got over a mini existential crisis a few months ago….
Jul 23rd
An Intuitive Explanation of Bayesian Reasoning →
No kidding. As the title suggests, Yudkowsky, who blogs on Overcoming Bias, explains the intuition behind Bayes’ Law and its application to everyday thinking. I’ve seen many articles and presentations about Bayesian reasoning, but this one is spot on, lengthy though it might be.
Jul 8th
The End of Theory →
Written by Chris Anderson, editor of Wired magazine. Money line: Correlation supersedes causation, and science can advance even without coherent models, unified theories, or really any mechanistic explanation at all.
Jul 3rd
May 2008
1 post
May 14th
February 2008
1 post
Nader is nothing less than a selfish old dolt.
Feb 24th
October 2007
6 posts
The elementary DNA of Dr Watson →
Charlotte Hunt-Grubbe’s original essay that created a huge controversy
Oct 18th
ZIPskinny - Get the Skinny on that ZIP  →
Oct 17th
A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins →
Oct 16th
the "blog" of "unnecessary" quotation marks →
Oct 15th
Tumblr action for Quicksilver →
Oct 15th
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Hans Rosling @ 2006 Myths about the developing world (part of my interest in alarmism)
Oct 15th
July 2007
1 post
hi.
it’s late.
Jul 18th