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Armored truck robber uses Craigslist to make getaway

by Jeremy

Armored truck robber uses Craigslist to make getaway

[From Armored truck robber uses Craigslist to make getaway | Top Stories | KING5.com | News for Seattle, Washington ]

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bank robbers…. they are class heroes aren’t they?

October 2, 2008   No Comments

Ab-normal Distribution

by Jeremy

The Universe of Discourse : The Lake Wobegon Distribution is a tight little explanation using baseball that also maps well into the way i think of most of the blather about power laws and related seeming web 2.0 statistic, which is that if you really analyze what is going, you find out that really it isn’t quite what you think. My critique of the power law people is to generally say, if you arrive at a power law, you are likely asking the wrong questions and that if you asked the same question in a different population, you’d likely find the same thing which would in the end, show your power law as insignificant. This article makes a different argument about how most people think normal curves are normal, but it shows pretty clearly that most places we’d expect a normal curve we find abnormal variation especially outside of the center bell.

October 2, 2008   No Comments

The technology can only do so much, nutrition is worth thinking about

by Jeremy

Jamie’s Ministry of Food, the celebrity chef’s new TV series, is a powerful portrait of the socially excluded. It also reveals an enduring truth, says Felicity Lawrence: our diet today is as much about class as it always has been – and it will take more than a one-man mission to change that

[From Felicity Lawrence on Jamie Oliver's TV series Jamie's Ministry of Food | Life and style | The Guardian ]

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worth the read and consideration

October 2, 2008   No Comments