September 2011
7 posts
Guy Photoshops Justin Bieber Face Into Coworkers... →
Haredi, Arab saving lives together →
In Plato’s Phaedrus (dialogue), Socrates uses the maxim ‘know thyself’ as his explanation to Phaedrus for why he has no time for mythology or other far flung topics. Socrates says, “But I have no leisure for them at all; and the reason, my friend, is this: I am not yet able, as the Delphic inscription has it, to know myself; so it seems to me ridiculous, when I do not yet...
Carbonaceous meteorites contain a wide range of... →
“we are not alone.”
Big Problems With Big Iron « Gödel’s Lost Letter... →
algorithms 43, hardware 1.
this year's reading list
Exploratory Data Analysis (9780201076165): John W. Tukey: Books
Theory of Point Estimation (Springer Texts in Statistics) (9780387985022): E.L. Lehmann, George Casella: Books
Testing Statistical Hypotheses (Springer Texts in Statistics) (9781441931788): Erich L. Lehmann, Joseph P. Romano: Books
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (9780961392147): Edward R. Tufte: Books
Statistical...
statistics is the art of data collection, analysis, and interpretation
– jovo