October 2010
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langer:
Superchunk, “Learned To Surf”
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Goals in my life (some completed more often) with...
Start laundry sober, finish laundry drunk.
Build a robot that can love.
Listed in order of amount of pounding:
a) My headache.
b) The beat at the club.
c) Neighbor last night.
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Basic Errors to Avoid When Interpreting Survey... →
rideadove:
Not a terrible article about interpreting survey statistics, but there’s some huge, huge obvious gaps missing, including the fact that most of these market stats usually don’t include error bars or comments on the statistical significance on each measure.
Rule of thumb: if you lack either error bars or some comment on statistical significance or sample size, the results probably...
Global Warming
Several things you need to consider if you want to make a solution to global warming.
Interest rates and the fact anything priced now is worthless in the far future (50 years or more)
Reducing economic output to limit environmental damage (a carbon tax) makes us worse off now.
The money that could be used fighting global warming could be used for things like: Protecting endangered land,...
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My roommates have been on a multi week Jello craze
I’m just not that into Jello.
I don't know whatever the fuck that is. But I hate...
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Bird Law
I’ve decided to start practicing Bird Law. The 3 pillars of bird law are:
Majestyness
Nobility
Scavenging.
I heard my first case tonight on proper treatment of dead pets. Jackson V. Feline.
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Wheel of Stars →
eastling:
To make this, I downloaded public data from Hipparcos, a satellite launched by the European Space Agency in 1989 that accurately measured over a hundred thousand stars. The data I downloaded contains position, parallax, magnitude, and color information, among other things.
I used this information to plot the brightest stars, and cause them to revolve about Polaris (the North Star)...
