December 2011
1 post
WatchMy daughter turns 3.
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”...
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.”
October 2008
2 posts
September 2008
1 post
August 2008
1 post
AdFreak: Then we'll grab a bite at 404 Not Found →
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….
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.
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.
May 2008
1 post
February 2008
1 post
Nader is nothing less than a selfish old dolt.
October 2007
6 posts
The elementary DNA of Dr Watson →
Charlotte Hunt-Grubbe’s original essay that created a huge controversy
ZIPskinny - Get the Skinny on that ZIP
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A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins →
the "blog" of "unnecessary" quotation marks →
Tumblr action for Quicksilver →
WatchHans Rosling @ 2006
Myths about the developing world (part of my interest in alarmism)
July 2007
1 post
hi.
it’s late.