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Take a class in visualization
Shawn Allen is teaching an online class in Data Visualization through the New York School of Visual Arts. Here’s his latest lecture. Read more
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The Navy’s new fast-track list
The US Navy is building a secret list of "diverse" officers slated for fast-track mentoring and promotion. The Wrong Kind of White People need not apply. Tip from Phi Beta Cons. Read more
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I got yer 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, … right here!
How have I managed so long without the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences? Read all about it. Tip from The Geek Press. Read more
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A short tale about the long tail
Lingustics Log has a nice post about early papers on long tail distributions. Good dissertation material, thanks guys! Read more
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2011 Tax Calculator
Income tax is going to change in 2011 with the projected expiration of the Bush tax cuts. See how it might affect you. Tip from the Instapundit. Read more
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The Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute
IASRI has a Design of Experiments Server, loaded with examples. Thanks, Bing! Read more
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Meet philospher David Stove
Will Briggs recommends the works of the late philosopher David Stove. Philospher James Franklin delights in discussing one of Stove’s works: It is therefore no answer to Stove’s attack on Darwinism to sermonise, as Blackburn does, about how disgraceful it is for philosophers to delve in matters that do not concern them. Marxists, or Freudians, Read more
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Death by Wikileak
Wikileaker Julian Assange claims he released thousands of classified US documents to reveal injustices. Seems like he also managed to rat out lots of folks who supported the US against the Taliban in the process. Nice. An administration with cojones enough to win a war would have arranged for Mr Assange’s building to burn down, Read more
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Dealing with the barbarian
"There’s a joke going around which some would consider offensive, but it illustrates a point I’d like to make. It goes something like this: An American Indian, a Muslim, and a Texan are talking one day. The American Indian says, "I am sad, because once my people were many, but now we are few!" The Read more
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