Apr 20, 2016
A Love Note to Kermit
Occasionally, I post some pictures and notes on hardware projects we have going on in the Cybernetics Laboratory, which is to say, my desk. One thing that always comes up a program…
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Apr 18, 2016
And We All Shine On
We like to think of the stars as these static things in the sky. The planets, even got their name from the fact they were not static. The word "planet" is from…
Apr 14, 2016
TCP and IP
I've been doing the An Introduction to Programming the Internet of Things (IOT) specialization on Coursera. One question asks about the difference between TCP and IP. This is my expanded essay based…
Apr 13, 2016
Listen to me talk data science on KFNX's TechTalk
:::figure{src="/assets/img/news/IMITTLogoL.webp" alt="TechTalk logo" align="right" width="100" link="https://imitechtalk.wordpress.com/"} ::: I was the guest on Tom D’Auria TechTalk on KFNX in Phoenix on Sunday afternoon, where I talked about how data science is bringing artificial…
Apr 12, 2016
Political Risk and Export Finance
Here's a great article on export credit. Following the fight over the Export-Import Bank of the United States, which I discussed here in 2014, here in 2015, here again in 2015, and…
Apr 8, 2016
Review of Meta-Analysis with R in JSS
I have another review in the Journal of Statistical Software on the book Meta-Analysis with R . From the review, Meta-analysis is a set of analytical tools that allows us to collect…
Apr 6, 2016
Come see my talk on Maryland's stormwater problem at Ignite Baltimore #18
Hey everyone, Ignite Baltimore has announced the lineup for Ignite Baltimore 18 and I am pleased to say I am there. I will be talking about Maryland's stormwater management problem. I was…
Apr 2, 2016
2016 Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition
I spent today at the Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition as part of an MDDF mission. The competition pits college teams around the region against each other as they run a model…
Apr 1, 2016
JSM 2016
I received word back from the 2016 Joint Statistical Meetings. As noted back in February, I proposed to JSM a presentation on retrospective social discount rates. This came from my dissertation and…
Mar 31, 2016
Flooding and Cost-Benefit Analysis in Manville, New Jersey
There's a story from Manville, New Jersey, about flooding and cost-benefit analysis, and that's my bag, baby. Here's the story: ::embed{href="http://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/local/the-flood-zone/2016/03/24/army-corps-manville-flooding-youre-your-own/82206640/"} Long story short, The Army Corps of Engineers said no to…
Mar 30, 2016
Phonics v0.7.3 with Cologne Phonetic
Version 0.7.3 of the Phonics software package posted to CRAN overnight. This new version includes support for the Cologne (Kölner) phonetic spelling algorithm. Cologne had been in for about a month, but…