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When I teach the basics of probability in Intro Stats, I always emphasize absolute vs. risk. I am delighted to have a brand new example. Thanks to Sy Islam for sending it my way.Here is the headline from The New York Post:So, one murder is too many murders. A 60% increase feels very scary. Because relative risk is always the scary risk. Since this reporting is about something that is …

New York Review Books does it again. One of my all time favorite vintage children's books will be back in print next month. The Man Who Lost His Head by Claire Huchet Bishop and illustrated by Robert McCloskey. Bless this publishing house. Seriously. And check out my original post from way back in 2008.

New Jersey garage freak Reckless Randy first came into my sight with 2022's neat self-titled debut LP and has since then released another strong EP. On this new (mini-)LP he once again ups the game considerably for what is hands down his most fully realized record to date as is best exemplified by the couple of tracks already known from previous releases, being given a thorough makeover and adding lots …

Push Upstairs.

Git doesn’t store reversion links between commits. It only relies on commit messages to track this information. When you run git revert, the default message includes a line about the reverted commit: Revert "Build gazebo" This reverts commit 81d727c075984206633fa0c58fe3d7bcfd970f28. So, given a commit SHA, you may be able to find its reversion by searching for patterns in the default commit message, as long as the author did not remove them. …

On LinkedIn, the social network of mandatory happiness, software engineer Michael Sayman writes about his new product:Introducing SocialAI, a private social network where you receive millions of AI-generated comments offering feedback, advice & reflections on each post you make.I will admit my first thought about this was: this is a prank, right? This is a fake product that somebody who hates generative AI and the “techbro culture” would come up …

Hey, I safely made my trip back to the south of France after a couple of day in Bergen, Norway, for the Raptus Comic book convention where I was a guest. I had a very good time and signed many Pepper&Carrot books and drew almost non stop, meeting many of you. Again a big thank you to the one who also traveled to Raptus to meet me. 💜 Sadly, I …

Hello! I’m Rachel Snowdon of Rachel Snowdon Studio, a London-born relief printmaker and illustrator who has been based in West Devon since 2009. Describe your printmaking process. Having recently introduced more colour into my designs, multi-block lino printing is probably my favourite process as it allows me some flexibility to experiment with different editions. Almost all of my linocuts are burnished by hand onto fine Japanese washi or Lokta papers. …

I am excited to share my new game, Dr1v3n Wild! It’s an OutRun inspired racing game with procedurally generated art and levels. This was created for JS13K 2024 and the entire game fits in a 13 kilobyte zip file including … Continue reading →

…that is, about as far from a childless catlady as one can get… OK, I lied; I will make an endorsement here. I hereby endorse ensuring that your voter registration is up to date (non-US citizens, too, but the link is for 'murikans). Many jurisdictions (not just US, either) have thirty-days-prior-to-election restrictions, such as not being allowed to vote in non-Federal elections if

The Data Visualization Checklist outlines what to do with each tiny part of your graph so it tells your story. The post The Data Visualization Checklist appeared first on Evergreen Data.

Debby refuses to be a passive victim of Vince Stone’s violence, fighting back and branding his face with boiling coffee as revenge. But while she’s no helpless victim, Lang’s ending[...] The post Barflies and Hot Lies: The Fifties B-Girl and Fritz Lang’s Subversive Politics in <em>The Big Heat</em> appeared first on Bright Lights Film Journal.

Ingredients: 1 kg of home-grown / organic limes (I use the sweet, yellow-skinned variety that we grow at Hōkio Beach) 2 kg of sugar 4 cups of hot water Recipe Slice the 1kg limes with a mandolin, and chop roughly; reserve the juice created. Place chopped limes in a large casserole dish with the 4 cups of water and bring to the boil; then add the reserve lime juice. (If …

I've shared these at work and thought it might be helpful to post my notes from the launch of the Museum Data Service at Bloomberg last week in public too. The MDS aggregates museum (and museum-like) metadata, encouraging use by data scientists, researchers, the public, etc. The MDS doesn't include images, but link to them … Continue reading Notes from the Museum Data Service launch