5 month ago
gleuschk : How Valid Are T.V. Weather Forecasts? - Freakonomics - They wish to continue providing inaccurate seven-day forecasts that are no more than a semi-educated shot in the dark because a) their competitors do and b) they can get away with it since they think the public does not know how inaccurate they are.
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7 month ago
gleuschk : Airplane on a Treadmill Definitive Analysis - and that should end that (but it won't)
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8 month ago
gleuschk : The Airport Security Follies - Jet Lagged - Air Travel - Opinion - New York Times Blog - we’ve gotten exactly the system we deserve
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10 month ago
gleuschk : Memo to the Reed College community from Lisa Moore, assistant dean for multicultural affairs - The Oregonian Extra - OregonLive.com - jesus h. christ.
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12 month ago
gleuschk : Bad Science » Imaginary numbers - more like bad, I mean really freaking terrible, journalism, amirite?
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13 month ago
gleuschk : Schneier on Security: Stupidest Terrorist Overreaction Yet? - Hashing=terrorism!! ZOMG! save us from the running drunks!
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13 month ago
gleuschk : MoonshineMath » Blog Archive » the unbearable lightness of math-blogging - Lieven says, "What is the ratio of ‘link-posts’ to all? The lower the ratio, the better." Or, you know, accept that there are as many styles of blogs as of books.
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13 month ago
gleuschk : Greetings From Idiot America - jesus christ this makes me so angry
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13 month ago
gleuschk : The New York Times slips up on sexual math. - By Jordan Ellenberg - Slate Magazine - Jordan expands on the mean/median confusion in yesterday's NYT article
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13 month ago
gleuschk : The gripe water story - from J. Royal Soc. Medicine -- only reasonable source I can find
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gleuschk : Vancouver stock exchange rounding bug - one for the general-ed classes
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gleuschk : Re: Not Convinced: Canon Talk Forum: Digital Photography Review - sez, "s4 is real and will be offically announced in may, 12x optical and 8.0 megapixel, 2.5" rotating LCD." hrmph
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19 month ago
gleuschk : NSF to (La)TeX users: bite us - Effective with implementation of the new Guide, only the following four fonts will be permitted: Arial, Helvetica, Palatino, or Georgia.
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30 month ago
gleuschk : [math/0603599] A Comment on "On Some Contradictory Computations in Multi-dimensional Mathematics" - (a) the results ... are correct and in this case we need a revolution in Mathematics (and also in Physics) or (b) the paper is a potpourri of nonsense. We show that option (b) is the correct one.
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30 month ago
gleuschk : Damn Interesting » Unskilled and Unaware of It - metacognition is haaaard.
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30 month ago
gleuschk : Tall, Dark, and Mysterious » Your stupid misconceptions addressed - ignorance fought with snark. satisfying, I'm sure, but more heat than light.
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31 month ago
gleuschk : Educators show ways to climb math mountain - like swimming
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31 month ago
gleuschk : What Is the Value of Algebra? - clueless knuckleheadedness in the Washington Post. "I confess to be one of those people who hate math." Irresponsible moron.
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33 month ago
gleuschk : Parents' actions betray SU ideals - Opinion - parents complain about their kids' roommates based on facebook.com snooping
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37 month ago
gleuschk : I don't understand the flickr community anymore - who are all these commenters, and why? is there any sense behind any of these?
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gleuschk : I Hate Google's Logo. A Lot. - now that you mention it, it is pretty lousy
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38 month ago
gleuschk : more from E.E. Escultura in the Manila Times - including messages from Andrew Wiles' coauthors (left in EEE's "guess book")
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