Tom DeLay, the ethically-challenged Republican House Majority Leader, was one of the main forces behind the politicization of the Terri Schiavo case. He has called the husband’s actions barbaric. Interestingly, however, it turns out that he had a similar experience with his own father and elected not to keep him alive:
“There was no [...]
This may be old hat, but this map is rather troubling (from Michigan Independent Media Center):
There is an interesting interview with a legal expert examining the state’s rights issues involved in the case regarding Terry Schiavo. Though this case is certainly tragic, it is odd to see neoconservative “state’s rights” Republicans create a bill to completely strip Florida of its jurisdiction over a case that has been fully litigated [...]
Here is a Usenet job recruitment posting from Microsoft in 1984. It gives an interesting perspective on the culture at that time. Iain made the insightful observation that it reminded him of something Google would post.
But, most importantly, you’re working for and with [...]
Hannah sent me a useful link to some lecture slides and collected information from a course on graphical models for inference at the University of Edinburgh.
This site has a bunch of Java applets for visualizing various statistical things. In particular, it has some applets that let you play with parameters of various distributions and look at the resulting PDFs. Some direct links to examples:
Gamma
Weibull
Log Normal
Beta
I hate lane cheaters. You’re in heavy traffic, two lanes are coming together and you politely “zipper in” with everybody else to get down to one lane. Some ass invariably drives all the way down the closing lane and tries to merge right at the last second. Not only does he move [...]
I gave a talk yesterday at our group meeting on considerations for constructing algebras of probability distributions. The slides are here.
I am a huge fan of the late Douglas Adams, and while I am excited about the prospect of the Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy being made into a live-action movie, I am afraid that they will screw it up. Recently, however, an interview with the screenwriter was posted to the web, and I [...]