therandomtexan
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Because nothing says high quality education like a Chili’s
UTSA enrollment tops 30,000 and we have a Chili’s! Contrary to widespread local opinion, UTSA has lots of dorms, the student body is now largely out-of-towners. Read more
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A melanoma treatment?
A medication that puts melanoma into remission? This is very encouraging news. Once you’ve had it, there’s always the concern that it might recur. Read more
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Oh, go math yourself
Scary as this seems, this is actually the way I learned most of the math I needed for grad school. Tip from Andrew Gelman. Read more
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Cut the tax cut?
A nice interactive graphic of how possible changes in federal tax cuts would affect your income tax. Tip from Flowing Data. Read more
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Careful with those dirty digits of yours
Ethan Brown begins a series on Benford’s Law and working with it in R. Stay tuned. Tip from R-Bloggers. Read more
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Even in simple experiments, BLINDING is important
Here’s a great example of a ruined experiment. Easy rule of thumb: whenever you’re working with human subjects, or (possibly) intelligent animal subjects, use double blinding. Read more
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Revolutionary elite, revealed
Wretchard explains the Professional Left. Elitism IS a dirty word. Read more
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