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Black History Data Visualization
In honor of Black History Month, we are reposting this hand-drawn visualization of demographic data created by W. E. B. Du Bois in the year 1900. You can find more such turn-of-the-century data visualizations here. (Hat tip: digg.)
Posted in Culture, Economics, History, Science
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Class No. 5 (Lies and Deception)
When was the last time you were lied to, or when was the last time you told a lie? In our next class, we will study the law and ethics of deception. Generally speaking, it is morally wrong to tell … Continue reading
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Visualization of a “design arms race” (soda can edition)
Why do the designs of the Dr Pepper and Squirt soda cans change less frequently (i.e. are more stable over time) than the designs of Pepsi and Coke cans?
Posted in Economics, Game Theory
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Skew dice
Monday Math Day?! Meet Robert Fathauer and Henry Segerman, authors of the Dice Lab and creators of “skew dice” (pictured below)–strange-looking dice that still generate fair odds. In their words: “When tossed, a fair die yields its various numbers or … Continue reading
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Facebook’s birthday
Facebook was launched from Mark Zuckerberg’s dorm room 13 years ago today (it was called thefacebook back then), yet there is still no DISLIKE button after all these years. But when should the billionaire CEO celebrate Facebook’s birthday: when he … Continue reading
Class No. 4 (Contracts and Vampires)
In our next class, we will consider the law and ethics of two separate promises depicted in the movie “The Social Network”–the informal coding agreement between the Winklevoss twins and Mark Zuckerberg as well as the informal partnership between Zuckerberg … Continue reading
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Statutes as lemons (critique of Kavanaugh, 2016)
We have just finished reading Brett Kavanaugh’s highly original essay “Fixing Statutory Interpretation” in the Harvard Law Review, vol. 129 (2016), pp. 2118-2163. (Kavanaugh, who we shall now refer to as “K-1”, is a federal appellate judge on the D.C. … Continue reading
Posted in Bayesian Reasoning, Game Theory, Language, Law
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prior probability 