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Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics (especially statistics)

Saturday, May 31, 2014

any states closer to wysiwyg legal system?

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I talked to X's caseworker at the work camp.  The camp has 100 inmates, 70 of whom are sex offenders; the other 30 get a special deal un...
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Thursday, May 22, 2014

hmmmmm

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I spent yesterday morning and early afternoon rushing around organizing paperwork for notices against trespass from me and the other neighbo...
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Saturday, May 17, 2014

hm

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I went to DC in April  to stay with my mother. On May 2 I got an email from VANS, the Vermont Automatic Notification Service, which sends ou...
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Thursday, April 10, 2014

Too long for Twitter

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Agatha Christe once wrote that, as a girl, she (mis)estimated she would never be so rich as to be able to afford a motor car, but never s...
Monday, April 7, 2014

spacing effect

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The spacing effect essentially says that if you have a question (“What is the fifth letter in this random sequence you learned?”), and you ...
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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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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