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Mixed strategies
So which of these four ghost strategies would you expect to have the highest kill rate? Hat tip to jackmcxp for sharing this tidbit with us via Imgur.
Eppur si muove …
“And yet it moves …” This map depicts Pangaea, a massive super-continent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras, with modern borders. Hat tip to the amazing Ada Swanson for the pointer.
Testing our scientific tests
We recently reviewed the abstract and slides of Deborah Mayo’s 3 Dec. 2014 presentation at Rutgers University. Her excellent talk was titled “Probing with severity: beyond Bayesian probabilism and frequentist performance.” (Both the abstract and the slides of her lecture … Continue reading
Why …
What does Google prediction spit out when you type the word “why” on Google search? Here’s what we got when we tried this little experiment from our home in Orlando, Florida at approximately 2am EST on 7 December 2014:
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Visualization of North American History
Hat tip to SirSilencer via reddit.
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Gaussian distribution of NBA scores
You can see the most common scores in such sports as basketball, football, and baseball in Philip Bump’s fun Wonkblog post here. Mr Bump writes: “Each sport follows a rough bell curve … Teams that regularly fall on the left side … Continue reading
Race and revenue
In light of the recent egregious examples of rigged grand juries, we want to revisit Walter Olson’s perceptive post dated 21 August 2014 on the “culture of petty fines” in places like Ferguson, Missouri. Here is an excerpt: Race is one reason … Continue reading
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Clowney and the sunk cost fallacy
Is Jadeveon Clowney a bust? Although the lackadaisical and injury-prone Clowney was the overall #1 pick in the 2014 NFL Draft, he has played in just four regular season games this year, with seven tackles and zero sacks. He’s now on injured reserve and … Continue reading
“The market as a creative process”
That is the title of this excellent essay by Viktor Vanberg and the late James Buchanan, which was recently reprinted in Daniel Hausman, editor, The Philosophy of Economics, Cambridge U Press (2008), pp. 378-398. Here is a picture of the book in … Continue reading
prior probability 