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If the burroughs of NYC were separate States, they would get 18 electoral college votes
Posted in Bayesian Reasoning, Maps, Politics
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A silly recursive game
Happy Monday! We stumbled upon the following pointless game via the Facebook page of our friend and colleague Dennis Wye Keen Khong: It’s National Book Week: The rules: grab the nearest book to you, go to page 56, and copy … Continue reading
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Major League Hypocrisy
Earlier this year, Major League Baseball cancelled a two-game series to be played in San Juan, Puerto Rico between the Marlins of Miami and the Pirates of Pittsburgh because some super-spoiled baseball players from the Miami Marlins were concerned about … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs, Racism, Sports
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#TrumpYourHand
How small are The Donald’s hands? It turns out that Mr Trump’s hands are smaller than average. Now, via the Hollywood Reporter, you can find out how you measure up to Mr Trump. (For your ready reference, here is a … Continue reading
Convergence hypothesis (social media edition)
Is this the same reason why so many college textbooks in a given field are so similar? On balance, is this convergence trend a good thing or a bad thing?
Posted in Current Affairs, Economics, Web/Tech
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Seriously, why is beach volleyball an Olympic sport?
While we brace ourselves for NBC’s excessive coverage of the venerable sport of beach volleyball at the 2016 Olympics, we want to second the snobbish sentiments of Paul Lewis, who wrote the following wisecracks during the 2008 Olympics: “The cynic … Continue reading
Posted in Games, Sports
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When to use the passive voice
As faculty editor of the UCF Undergraduate Journal, we are constantly on “passive voice search & destroy missions” when we edit manuscripts: hunting for awkward sentences written in the passive voice and converting them into simple and straightforward active voice … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Bayesian Reasoning, Culture, Language
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prior probability 