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Dec 4, 2015
There's a great article on PLOS ONE about using pigeons for cancer detection. The short version is that scientist successfully trained pigeons to detect cancer through visual inspection of medical imagery. But…
Dec 2, 2015
Aeon has a fascinating essay on the history of the English language, and how the language itself evolved around a series of invaders. The point of the article is to understand why…
Dec 1, 2015
A week from tonight, I'll be talking to Statistical Programming DC about performing numerical analysis in R. R has become the go-to environment to support data science and statistical applications across many…
Nov 30, 2015
Tonight is my last night of teaching public finance for the semester.[^lastnight] Over the next two weeks or so, my students are working on a group paper analyzing options for alleviating food…
Nov 29, 2015
Science has a good article on mathematics in industry across the Pacific Rim. The article basically says a lot of mathematicians in manufacturing intense areas are leaving academia (temporarily or permanently) to…
Nov 19, 2015
It's been another month and now there's another study on the costs and benefits relating to flooding. This week's entry is Oregon State's Steven Dundas who writes on the costs and benefits…
Nov 17, 2015
YouTube can be an awfully weird place. I love a good story about something just a bit off-kilter. It could be the Solway Firth Spaceman or the Cooper Family Photograph, or the…
Nov 13, 2015
Last week, I was in a convenience store and the owner was watching a gameshow. I think it was Who Wants to be a Millionaire, but I am not sure. I am…
Nov 12, 2015
NPR's article is the latest in a series that asks how professors deal with cellphones and laptops in the classroom. I don't include anything in my syllabi about it, but I usually…
Nov 10, 2015
There's a great article in Natural Hazards called "Flood recovery and property acquisition in Cedar Rapids, Iowa" by Eric Tate, Aaron Strong, Travis Kraus, and Haoyi Xiong, on the value of buying…
Nov 8, 2015
I just uploaded a draft research note on Bitcoin mining pools to SSRN. The note is an extension of the logic behind this blog post on the topic. Image by Jonathan Waller…