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Dark Squib
After today’s lengthy pre-Christmas traipse around Cardiff in the freezing cold, I don’t think I can summon up the energy for a lengthy post today. However, today’s cryogenic tempera… more →
In the Dark
Dark Squib
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wrote 1 week ago: After today’s lengthy pre-Christmas traipse around Cardiff in the freezing cold, I don’t … more →
'Cyber Bullying' : My Arse
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wrote 1 month ago: Cyberspace, The Final Frontier (Of Hyperbole) If you’ve switched on the TV news today, or open … more →
The Monkey Complex
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wrote 1 month ago: There’s an old story that if you leave a set of monkeys hammering on typewriters for a sufficiently … more →
Godless Uncertainty
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wrote 1 month ago: As usual I’m a bit slow to comment on something that’s been the topic of much twittering … more →
A Dutch Book
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wrote 2 months ago: When I was a research student at Sussex University I lived for a time in Hove, close to the local Gr … more →
The League of Extraordinary Gibberish
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wrote 2 months ago: After a very busy few days I thought I’d relax yesterday by catching up with a bit of reading. … more →
The Law of Unreason
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wrote 2 months ago: Not much time to post today, so I thought I’d just put up a couple of nice little quotes about … more →
Astrostats
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wrote 3 months ago: A few weeks ago I posted an item on the theme of how gambling games were good for the development of … more →
Do all curves over finite fields have covers with a sqrt(q) eigenvalue?
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wrote 3 months ago: On my recent visit to Illinois, my colleage Nathan Dunfield (now blogging!) explained to me the foll … more →
Game Theory
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wrote 3 months ago: Nowadays gambling is generally looked down on as something shady and disreputable, not to be discuss … more →
The Inductive Detective
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wrote 3 months ago: I was watching an old episode of Sherlock Holmes last night – from the classic Granada TV ser … more →
Simpson's Paradox
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wrote 4 months ago: I haven’t put anything in the Bad Statistics file for a while, so I thought I’d put th … more →
A Mountain of Truth
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wrote 5 months ago: I spent the last week at a conference in a beautiful setting amidst the hills overlooking the small … more →
First Digits and Electoral Fraud in Iran
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wrote 6 months ago: An interesting issue has arisen recently about the possibility that the counting of the recent hotly … more →
On the Iranian election returns, in Slate
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wrote 6 months ago: In today’s Slate I write about the claim that the official Iranian election returns are too li … more →
Which teams in the AL East are for real?
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wrote 7 months ago: Not the Blue Jays — and I knew it before the Orioles beat them twice in a row. They’ve … more →
Influenza Body Count
wrote 7 months ago: I’m in Slate today explaining how the CDC estimates the number of people who die of flu each y … more →
Deeeefense
wrote 7 months ago: One theory of the 2009 Orioles was that the fleet legs and sure hands of Adam Jones, Felix Pie, and … more →
The Doomsday Argument
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wrote 8 months ago: I don’t mind admitting that as I get older I get more and more pessimistic about the prospect … more →
