I was going through Statistics Hacks and came across Benford’s Law, which states that in naturally occurring numerical data, the distribution of the first, non-zero significant digit follows a logarithmic probability distribution described as: P(D1 = d) = log10 (1 + 1/d) In other words, first number is much more likely going to be a […]
In anticipation of my physical, and partly to assuage fears that the post-big four-oh one would entail uncomfortable things, I sleuthed around for things on what to expect, thinking. Clearly I’ve been watching too many episodes of House. The American Academy of Family Physicians[1] has six classifications for their recommendations of common “clinical preventive services:”
Today was my monthly volunteer stint at a local grade school. To recap my previous three sessions: Episode One, writing station: The exercise was to learn the parts of speech by practicing Mad Libs, then create one’s own Mad Lib. A Mad Lib is a story where one provides the nouns, verbs and adjectives, often
I’d have never thought it possible, but the combination of extra heavy inner-tube, tire liner and providence let me make it through the months of January and February without a flat tire. I’m not jinxing it because karma already deposited her regards all over me last August, when I had a record number of flats
Taking the motivational page from Glengarry, Glen Ross (link goes to Alec Baldwin’s best role) one further? First prize: Cadillac El Dorado. Second prize: a set of steak knives. Third prize: you’re water boarded. Yet, strangely, this made Fake Steve visiting the used car dealer even better.
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Last week, I read a story about 143 million pounds of beef products from California-based Westland/Hallmark Meat Company being retroactively recalled to February 1, 2006. Questions that came to mind: Does beef keep for two years? I’d always worked from the conventional cooking wisdom that meat could be stored for up to two months in
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It’s was serendipitous when I found out a friend of mine would be teaching a Machine Learning class — her specialty — and her lectures would be recorded for posterity and she generously offered to let me “play from home.” How could I not seize the opportunity? During the fourth lecture, when she posted a
I found out that the North American Handmade Bicycle Show was being held in Portland. I ♥ Portland. I ♥ bike pr0n. The combination? Day trip! (Note: If you’d just prefer to skip ahead to the gallery, click here.) Portland’s about a 3 1/2 hour fugly drive down Interstate 5. For a day trip, that’s
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