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Oct 9, 2015
I have two book reviews in the current issue of the Journal of Statistical Software. In the second, I reviewed Uncertainty Quantification and Stochastic Modeling with MATLAB by Eduardo Souza de Cursi…
Oct 8, 2015
I have two book reviews in the current issue of the Journal of Statistical Software. First, I reviewed Data-Driven Modeling & Scientific Computation: Methods for Complex Systems & Big Data by J.…
Oct 7, 2015
It's ambiguous. There are two problems here. First, PEMDAS doesn't necessarily include all of the things in this example problem. The implicit multiplication is one. That is, which rule governs 2(? Some…
Oct 4, 2015
Like all good parents, I took the kids to see The Martian this afternoon. It was awesome, but that's not the point. The first 15 minutes or so are legitimately scary, especially…
Oct 4, 2015
I am convinced if you study mathematics long enough, you will eventually discover something unsettling. For me, this moment came in real analysis. This morning, a friend posted on Facebook, that her…
Sep 30, 2015
People of Earth. I propose we propose a mission to bring back a liter or so of that Martian water. We can propose this to NASA. Or maybe just use it to…
Sep 29, 2015
In my public finance class, last night we got to public choice theory. I find public choice to be the hardest part of the class. I also kind of think that public…
Sep 27, 2015
Over the last week, I have added Caverphone, Caverphone 2, the New York State Identification and Intelligence System, the modified New York State Identification and Intelligence System, and the Census Modified Statistics…
Sep 26, 2015
A fantastic open access article in Environmental Research Letters explores the consequences of flood risk by socioeconomic group. The study focuses on the Miami-Dade MSA and provides an assessment showing racial and…
Sep 23, 2015
I needed to cite (informally, in a Facebook conversation) a footnote I had written 15-16 years ago in DaemonNews, an old publication dedicated to the BSD family of operating systems. DN is…
Sep 20, 2015
I was working on a data merge this weekend with some county-level data. This has to do with the NFIP. But one of the datasets did not include FIPS codes; it was…