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Sep 29, 2015

Voting, Ice Cream, and the Classroom

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

Caverphone, NYSIIS, and StatCan Added to Phonics Package

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

Flooding Risk and Environmental Justice

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

BSD Family Tree Reposted

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

Metaphone in R

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…

Sep 18, 2015

One Ping Only

Meanwhile in the Future , Gizmodo's podcast of the future, explores what happens when humanity encounters a Bracewell probe.

Sep 17, 2015

Take a Left at Albuquerque

Pioneer 10 included a plaque, shown above. Pictographically, it shows humans, where we are, and where we come from. Just in case anyone should ever find it and get curious. At the…

Sep 16, 2015

Tradecraft Primer from the CIA

The CIA has on their website a PDF booklet called A Tradecraft Primer: Structured Analytic Techniques for Improving Intelligence Analysis . The booklet reviews methods of intelligence analysis including: Alternative Futures, Outside-In…

Sep 15, 2015

I Remember Berenstain as Berenstain

On last week's Reply All, they allude to the Berenstain Bears conspiracy theory. The gist of the theory is that everyone remembers Berenstain spelled Berenstein and at some point, history got rewritten…

Sep 14, 2015

Why This Hammer Costs $435

My talk on government accounting, "Why this Hammer Costs $435," at Ignite Howard County is now available on YouTube. ::youtube{video="tmIIwYu8w1g"} You can read more about this in this blog post.