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paperpools: paradoxe du bouquiniste
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Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics (especially statistics). Tuesday, April 15, 2008. I'm reading Dominique Urvoy's Les penseurs libres dans l'Islam classique. Albin Michel 1996/Flammarion 2003), which I picked up at the airport in Casablanca. Urvoy comments: the enterprise of setting out a collective structure of thought, with occasional detailed studies of individuals, is entirely legitimate. But isn't there something odd about this radical antithesis between the study of Western and of Arab thought? Winnie...
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Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics (especially statistics). Monday, March 22, 2010. Obama recently appointed ET to the Recovery Independent Advisory Commission. Excelsior. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Helen DeWitt is author of The Last Samurai and Lightning Rods, and co-author of Your Name Here with Ilya Gridneff, an Australian journalist. View my complete profile. A la recherche de marcel proust. Edward Tufte PowerPoint = Kitten Death. Mr Mason and the Right of Reply. Losing the Plot (A and I 2).
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paperpools: à la recherche de marcel proust
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Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics (especially statistics). Wednesday, April 14, 2010. À la recherche de marcel proust. James McGirk has a Q&A with Lorin Stein, the new editor of the Paris Review, on the Economist's More Intelligent Life blog, here. Who do you read for pleasure these days? Which authors, literary magazines, blogs or books would you recommend? Order Du côté de chez Swann from amazon.fr. So you can read at least a few of Proust's sentences in French. So there's no point in even looking. Parfoi...
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paperpools: pop-up ads, boon or bane?
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Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics (especially statistics). Saturday, April 11, 2015. Pop-up ads, boon or bane? Tim Harford on the use of Amazon's Mechanical Turk to quantify level of annoyance of pop-up ads. Usually researchers want to avoid people dropping out of their experiments. The wicked brilliance of this experimental design is that the dropout rate is precisely what the experimenters wanted to study. 8201; . . . Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Losing the Plot (A and I 2).
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paperpools: post-Socratics
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Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics (especially statistics). Sunday, August 24, 2008. I asked if I might follow up. “Why then,” I asked, “is it that the back pages of the New York Review of Books. 8220;You can actually dispute facts,” Franzen said, “but you can’t dispute taste. That’s the sorry condition of the artist. There’s no proving it.”. Franzen, anyway, not only failed to make this point but let the side down even further by a variation of 'Well, it's all subjective, innit? I do not mean that there exi...
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paperpools: Geoff Pullum on the IPA
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Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics (especially statistics). Wednesday, March 11, 2015. Geoff Pullum on the IPA. Reveals that for almost any point in the mouth or throat where an obstruction or radical restriction of the airflow from the lungs can be made by lips or teeth or tongue or pharynx, such a restriction will be used to produce at least some. And for every reasonable position in which you can hold the tongue and lips and cheeks while permitting unimpeded airflow, there is a. The whole thing here.
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paperpools: "sigh"
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Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics (especially statistics). Thursday, February 12, 2015. Reading Michael Booth's The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia. Bought for my Kindle off Amazon.com, even though I'm in London, because Amazon fought me tooth and nail when I tried to change the location of my Kindle and buy off Amazon.co.uk. This turns out to mean I get an Americanized version of the book. February 13, 2015 at 6:28 PM. February 14, 2015 at 1:59 PM. The Lish Version ...
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paperpools: Best excuse ever
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Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics (especially statistics). Monday, May 19, 2008. My dear friend Rafe Donahue has sent many helpful suggestions with regard to ggplot2. He comments:. Don't think of the ± of 0.2 to each of the data at the repeat. Locations as modifying the data. You are not modifying the data, you. Are providing a different plotting algorithm for those points that share. A location with other points. Which really is terribly nice. Further information on ggplot2 is available here. For those who...
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paperpools: Cormac McCarthy & the semi-colon
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Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics (especially statistics). Friday, August 17, 2007. Cormac McCarthy and the semi-colon. Has sent me the link to Cormac McCarthy's interview with Oprah Winfrey, here. You have to join Oprah's book club, but membership is free. I say: When Gertrude Stein wrote The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas she was not "Gertrude Stein", she was just Gertrude Stein, a writer doing what she thought was right for her text. It's not a question of justifying what's in a text by appeali...This ...
