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I liked the way this post analogized the simulation hypothesis to Lee Smolin's Cosmological Natural Selection ( Read more... )

A five digit rollover today: number twenty thousand! ... My last birthday was a four digit rollover, base three.

On Deborah Mayo's Error Statistics Philosophy blog there is a discussion of a Bayesian attempt to ridicule frequentism:

‘Suppose we decide that the effect exists; that is, we reject [null hypothesis] H0. Surely, we must also reject probabilities conditional on H0, but then what was the logical justification for the decision? Orthodox logic saws ( Read more... )

In late July, I managed to play four games of softball.  The bone bruise at the bottom of my left tibia had improved to where I was able to walk 2+ miles and run short distances without a setback.

On Sunday 7/28 I played my 40+ team's final regular season game.  We won, finishing 16-2, in first place two games ahead of the powerhouse team that had ( Read more... )

I just read in Significance magazine (published by the Royal Statistical Society and the American Statistical Association) that Hong Kong filmmaker Run Run Shaw is still alive -- 105 years old and has established the Shaw Prize, 'the Nobel Prize of Asia'.

Normal Deviate (statistics professor Larry Wasserman) asked this question on his blog yesterday.

... I was in the basement toward the end of my first year of college (still living with my parents), reading "Stein's Paradox in Statistics" an article by Bradley Efron and Carl Morris in the May 1977 issue of Scientific AmericanThe article solved a ( Read more... )

OvercomingBias quotes a New Scientist article that claims ( Read more... )

This report claims that the spider is building its own decoy.

But that doesn't make sense: why would you build something that would attract (even more) predators that destroy your web, even if you manage to survive when they do?

Alternative hypothesis: these spiders are weaving images of their deity.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1731141/

... so it will make for a nice birthday present.