Yes, Coronavirus is spreading, and people have a hard time understanding exponential growth. Mark Suster tweeted the following video from 3Blue1Brown which gives an excellent,…
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Yes, Coronavirus is spreading, and people have a hard time understanding exponential growth. Mark Suster tweeted the following video from 3Blue1Brown which gives an excellent,…
A tweet alerted me to this 2011 Guardian article, September 11’s indirect toll: road deaths linked to fearful flyers. A German professor, Gerd Gigerenzer, estimated…
How useful is someone or something you’re listening to? What is the ROPE? The larger and more ossified the institution the higher the frequency. The…
China’s Confucius Institute strategy — Colleges get a serving of language instruction, with a side helping of censorship — appears to have run it’s course.…
If I really want to think I find it better to go a park away from home. Less temptation to return to some form of…
This was the likelihood local weather reports gave for snow today, specifically in the afternoon from noon to 3. It didn’t happen. The Atlanta Falcons…
The first draft needs to be fast. The largest risk here is incompletion. The second greatest risk is inordinate expense of time starting, stopping, and…
The war on Christmas is losing badly on at least one front: luminaria. The Kains returned to Pittsburgh three years and one day ago, on…
In the wake of Sokal Prank 2.0, Andrew Bade in Quillette has a systemic dismantling of the use of high-falutin’ vocabulary that is a must-read. Even…