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Regression revelation
Here’s a clever reformulation of simple least-squares regression that estimates slope as a weighted average of pairwise slopes. Too cool! Read more
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Pay no attention to the man before the curtain
British Foreign Secretary William Hague takes the concept “if you can’t blind them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit” to a whole new level. Read more
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An American artist
Steve Penley does some fabulous stuff outside the artsy-fartsy anti-American mainstream. Check him out. Tip from Brian Boldoc at National Review Online. Read more
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Listening to Peter Orszag
Former CBO Director Peter Orszag spoke last night at Trinity University on the looming financial crisis. He was quite informative, giving some good insights into Federal budget and spending. His take is that the Federal deficit will be driven primarily by health care spending, and suggested that emerging technology that identifies and promotes “best practices” Read more
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“Sensitive”, like “nice,” is highly overrated
A blogger throws out a short post on a Seattle restaurant that refuses to serve TSA agents. The first commenter sympathizes with the Blueshirts, and hilarity ensues. Tip from the Instapundit, who didn’t warn ANYBODY. Update (25 February). Paul Hsieh at GeekPress rates it “Best Comment Thread. Ever.” Read more
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Learn MATLAB, cheap
Cleve Moler, Chairman and Chief Scientist at the MathWorks, has published an online MATLAB texbook, Numerical Computing with MATLAB. You can download the chapters as individual PDFs, for free. Tip from the MathWorks, via email. (I knew there was a reason to stay on that mailing list!) Read more
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Barack-0 must be their 1901st closest friend…
… because he didn’t make the cut. Swiped from Drudge. Read more
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Here there be monsters
Nicholas Taleb (of The Black Swan fame) describes the Fourth Quadrant and the limits of statistics. I have nothing against economists: you should let them entertain each others with their theories and elegant mathematics, and help keep college students inside buildings. But beware: they can be plain wrong, yet frame things in a way to Read more
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