Mexican flu, swine flu, H1N1, hiney, the 2009 flu pandemic, the "A" flu (romance languages)

What does it about something say if people can't settle on a name?

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic

* Bayes Rule: "P(A,B) = P(A|B) P(B)" means "forall a,b . P(A=a, B=b) = P(A=a|B=b) P(B=b)". This is very standard.

* "variance of the estimator" means "variance of the sampling distribution of the estimator". AFAICT, this is unambiguous, and the only reasonable interpretation is for "estimator" to mean the random variable. To make this even more ( Read more... )

Wittgensteinian problem: How can we know that we're talking about the same thing?


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Isn't it great how the Internet has made written language more efficient? I think we have IRC to thank for creating the world's first informal text medium (before the internet, even letters among family members seem unnecessarily formal ( Read more... )