A historical collection of our writing.
In the last Uncertainty Wednesday post on Sample Variance, I wrote that “Inference from data without explanations is how people go deeply wrong about reality.” It occurred to me that the best way to illustrate this is by writing about spurious correlation. To do that I first have to introduce the […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
NOTE: One of my goals for 2018 is to bring my book World After Capital to the point where I feel it is good enough to publish in paper form. I have come to realize that if I just keep blogging about other topics at the same time I won’t get there. So going forward […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Late in 2016 I wrote a blog post titled “Voice Platforms: Open Alternative is an Opportunity.” At the time I learned about a project called Mycroft. This project has just launched its second version, the Mark II, on Kickstarter. If you want voice in your home but are weary of Amazon and Google (and […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Last Uncertainty Wednesday, I used meteorite impact data to make the point that sample variance may be much smaller than actual variance. Following the post, I was asked a great question on Twitter: “Is there such thing as estimation error on sample variance?” The answer is yes. Just as we saw […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
It appears that some people genetically need only 4 hours of sleep per night. Well, I am not one of them. I also don’t seem to be needing less sleep as I am getting older. Instead, I have come to appreciate how critically important sleep is for me. Looking back, many of my worst decisions, […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
We have the USV office closed today in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. day. In his book “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community” he wrote: I strongly recommend reading a longer excerpt from the book, which shows just how visionary MLK was. He wrote the book in 1967, the year that […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
