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How to become a Bayesian in eight easy steps
That is the title of this paper (preprint via PsyArXiv) by Alexander Etz, et al. We plan on reading it in the next few days and will report back soon! (Hat tip: Brian D. Earp, via Twitter.)
Visualization of retail creative destruction
Jeff Desjardins poses the following question in this report: “What has more value: all major publicly traded department stores in the United States, or Amazon?” The answer is Amazon. In the words of Mr Desjardins: “Add together the market caps … Continue reading
Visualization of an anomaly
What’s wrong with this picture? Read about this visual paradox here.
Lego world map
Dirk B. created a scale map of the world out of LEGO bricks. You can read more about his project here and here.
The war against children
We’ve heard many fancy restaurants are starting to ban children, but did you know that Apple Park, Apple’s massive $5 billion spaceship campus (pictured below) consisting of 2,800,000 square feet, doesn’t have a single childcare facility. More here, via CNET. (Hat tip: Ryan … Continue reading
Mathematics and mathematicians on Twitter
The full list is available here.
Rule evasion (I-95 edition)
My wife and I took turns driving from Orlando, Florida to Savannah, Georgia via various interstate highways earlier today in order to attend the annual meeting of Academy of Legal Studies in Business (#ALSB): I-4 East to I-95 North to … Continue reading
Tom Brady’s footballs (part 7): some problems with the contagion model
We presented our contagion model of rule evasion in our previous post. Here, however, we shall point out some flaws with our model. To begin with, our model implies that actors are either law-abiding or law-evading, when in reality, actors … Continue reading

