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Shikata ga nai, my ass
Hideaki Akaiwa is a real Man’s Man, right down to the duct tape. And somehow he manages it without the usual penis substitutes, like an oversized SUV or a 60-inch flatscreen TV. Amazing. And on top of it all, the man has a sense of style: Ray-Bans and an amime mascot! Tip from the Instapundit. Read more
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Colorful cowboys
I saw some examples of Don Weller’s watercolors in a sandwich shop the other day. This guy is the real deal. Read more
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If you gamble, know when to stop
It’s explained in gory detail here. Tip from Thnik Again! Read more
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A complaint, answered forthrightly
Today’s G-File pointed me to this jewel of letter writing. I stand in awe. Read more
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Crank up the Enola Gay!
Great view of the cockpit of the famous Hiroshima Bomber. Back in the 20th Century, I–and a half-dozen other young majors–had lunch with General Tibbets. Oh, the stories he had. The first class of the Air Command and Staff College was all field-promoted colonels who’d been lieutenants when the war started. General T. said they’d… Read more
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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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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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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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