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Dinosaur Jr. | Showbox Presents
Dean Eckles
Sticking around #informs2019 in Seattle through tomorrow night and like '90s indie rock? I'm thinking of catching Dinosaur Jr. before my midnight flight back to Boston.
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Statisticians Charge Draft Lotter'y Was Not Random
article on charges by statisticians and others that draft lottery was not truly random; Capt W S Pascoe, chief of pub information for Selective Service System, describes preparation and conduct of lottery; graph shows avg lottery number for men born...
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Dean Eckles
@EpiEllie @AndersHuitfeldt Though often in detectable ways. The 1969 Vietnam draft lottery didn't mix the balls enough after putting them in in order
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Addressable TV Ad Spending Should Hit $3.3 Billion Next Year – Adweek
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Dean Eckles
While it still is a minority of TV ad spend, "addressable TV" is delivering different ads to different households
adweek.com/tv-video/addre… twitter.com/BrendanNyhan/s…
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NBA chief Adam Silver will face ‘retribution’, China’s state media says
Basketball league commissioner ‘fabricated lies out of nothing … to paint China as unforgiving’ and ‘please American politicians’, CCTV says
High Schools to TikTok: We’re Catching Feelings
Teens love the app, and now it’s getting the stamp of approval with teacher-approved clubs. Did school just get ... fun?
Street Planning in These Cities Rethinks the Curbside
“The status quo isn’t really working super well anymore.”
Amazon.com: Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society (Audible Audio Edition): Nicholas A. Christakis, Audible Studios: Audible Audiobooks
Amazon.com: Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society (Audible Audio Edition): Nicholas A. Christakis, Audible Studios: Audible Audiobooks
Dean Eckles
Just started the audiobook version of The Blueprint and was pleasantly surprised to hear @NAChristakis's voice reading it.
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Principal components analysis corrects for stratification in genome-wide association studies
Principal components analysis corrects for stratification in genome-wide association studies
Devious Ransomware Frees You if You Infect Two Other People
It's the malware version of It Follows.
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Dean Eckles
Ransomware with a devious viral growth incentive scheme: If you don't want to pay the ransom, try to infect your friends
wired.com/2016/12/popcor… via @mikko
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In U.S., Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace
The religious landscape of the United States continues to change at a rapid clip, with both Protestantism and Catholicism experiencing losses of population share.
Comment: Reflections on the Deconfounder
The aim of this comment (set to appear in a formal discussion in JASA) is to
draw out some conclusions from an extended back-and-forth I have had with Wang
and Blei regarding the deconfounder method proposed in "The Blessings of
Multiple Causes"...
Econometrics Sandbox: Event Study Designs & Co.
Event Study Designs, RDiT, DID, R-shiny dashboard
Can you make AI fairer than a judge? Play our courtroom algorithm game
The US criminal legal system uses predictive algorithms to try to make the judicial process less biased. But there’s a deeper problem.
Warren wrong that networks refuse false political ads
Sen. Elizabeth Warren escalated her battle to break up Facebook by posting an ad that intentionally included a false account about Mark Zuckerberg backing President Donald Trump. Warren’s goal was to show that the social media giant allows...
Who is a millennial? An example of handling uncertainty
Kaiser shows how to deal with variability in the data, showing how there is no clear definition of who is a millennial. #principalanalyticsprep #junkcharts
Dean Eckles
Who is a millennial, or, what happens when you try to categorize a continuous distribution without clearly separated modes?
junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/20… from @junkcharts pic.twitter.com/KyRtADzrGI
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Rushing to Appear Virtuous: Time Pressure Increases Socially Desirable Responding - John Protzko, Claire M. Zedelius, Jonathan W. Schooler,
Prosociality increases when decisions are made under time pressure. Here, we investigated whether time pressure increases socially desirable responding outside ...
Archival History of Computing at MIT
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Dean Eckles
Enjoyed searching this new archival history of computing at MIT (1950-1962) with my colleague John Little just now. We found this: Receiving 5 hours of machine time in 1954 for his dissertation.
comphist.digitalhumanitiesmit.org @DigitalHumMIT pic.twitter.com/K3ju2Hrwir
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