Weekly geekery

Back from a hectic JSM in Miami, so back with the odd items.

Statistics

• Paul Meier’s survival function converges to zero
• Through the eyes of a statistician (JSM award winner)
• Even more statistics videos from JSM
• user333 wanted an autocorrelated binary sequence; I introduced him to a simple Markov chain

Recipes from Miami

• mango mojito (but mulling is for rubes–juice a lime per drink and chop a mint leaf–shake with cube ice in a cocktail shaker)
• steamed yuca (had this at Nikki’s in Little Havana–mmm, good)

• fie on your panini, I’m holding out for a medianoche (Mexicanos are peppery, Cubanos are cheesy)
• coffee flan (this was topped with coffee ice cream at the trendy Yuca bistro on Lincoln Avenue)
• pineapple popsicles (found this one in Southwest Airline’s inflight magazine–they added cilantro!, but I like ’em with fresh mint)