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Saturday, March 22, 2014

the irony of Benn

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The irony is that, had Benn stuck to the centre ground that he occupied for his first 20 years in parliament, he may* well have become Lab...
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Sunday, December 15, 2013

faint but pursuing

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Somewhat demoralized.  I put in an application for the winter session of Hacker School - this is a program in New York in which participants...
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Like. Follow.

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Long-time readers of PP will know that I went to Vermont in October 2012 with the plan of being offline for two months or so and finishing a...
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013

plots of binomial distribution in basic R and ggplot2

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Basic R: dbinom, p = 1/8, 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, 7/8, 1 to 8 trials ggplot2: dbinom, p = 1/8, 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, 7/8, 1 to 8 t...
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Monday, March 18, 2013

That time of year

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I need an accountant who is up to speed on writers'/artists' tax affairs, and in particular one who understands the intricacies of r...
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Friday, March 15, 2013

scire, tacere

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Tariq Ali has a post on Kashmir on the LRB blog ; he links to a piece on the Caravan by Sanjay Kak. Dumbstruck. IF THERE IS AN AXIS ALO...
Saturday, March 2, 2013

Laugh and the world laughs with you...

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Things have been bad for reasons I won't go into. I am now at the MacDowell Colony (every cloud has a silver lining). Very sporadic inte...
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Helen DeWitt
Helen DeWitt is author of The Last Samurai and Lightning Rods, and co-author of Your Name Here with Ilya Gridneff, an Australian journalist.
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