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Wise up, Stats Boy!
Want to become a multi-level modeling wizard? Take this course from the University of Bristol. Tip from Andrew Gelman. Read more
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More shoddy Chinese workmanship
And I thought the crap they sold at Wal-Mart was bad… Tip from the Instapundit. Read more
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Having a stroke?
San Antonio has just configured 8 stroke centers. You can quickly determine if someone has had a stroke–there are 3 golden hours–using three simple tests: "Show me your smile." Is it lopsided? "Raise your arms." Are both hands even? "Repeat after me." Can the person say "Don’t cry over spilt milk?" Read more
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Math is not linear
That’s what it says on Prezi…. Good stuff for UTSA’s Quantiatitive Scholarship program. Tip from Thnik Again! Read more
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You say you want a Revolution?
R, the favorite language of stats wonks, is going corporate. Not a surprise to the geekerati, but a nice summary. Tip from Nathan at Flowing Data. Read more
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Meet the Amazing Khan
1196 lectures and growing at the Khan Academy. I’m linking to dozens of them for my statistics classes. Tip from Brock Crusick quoted at the Instapundit. Read more
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You knew that. You just didn’t know you knew it.
Tacit knowledge: "… We only think it’s mysterious if we think explicitness is the norm, but explicitness is a rare thing, restricted to humans…" Tip from the Instapundit. Read more
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OK, so there WAS germ warfare in WW II
…conducted in China. As usual, we covered for the bad guys. Tip from the Instapundit. Read more
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The Tea Party, in a nutshell
William Voegeli concisely gets us up to date on the Tea Party movement: The sociological but not very comic reality is that Brooks’s Achievatrons wound up being distrusted by millions of their countrymen the old-fashioned way—they earned it. Our new meritocratic masters have been more conspicuously smart than wise. They know a lot, but don’t Read more
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