Linkage
Some interesting stuff has passed my way while being in India (and one or two things from before). Might as well post them before I forget, no? Slavoj Žižek may be a curmudgeonly Marxist, but the...
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BSTJ Online
The Bell Systems Technical Journal is online now. Unfortunately, when I tried to download a paper I got this:
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more binomial MADness
I posted earlier about the mean absolute deviation (MAD) of a binomial variable with parameters . Here’s a little follow-up with plots. This is a plot of versus for different values of . The first is...
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Graunt’s 1662 book on the London Bills of Mortality claims to be written in “succinct paragraphs, without any long series of multiloquious deductions.” “Multiloquious” is my new favorite word.
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I am visiting India, so I will probably not post too much for the month. Assuming I don’t get eaten alive by the mosquitoes (a distinct possibility), I’ll post more in December. Maybe I’ll post a...
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