In this six-minute-long impassioned video, Carl Malamud draws on his considerable poetical and performance skills to introduce The General Index: What is The General Index, and how can it benefit you? The answer, some of it in the form of questions, is in the video. Here, to whet your appetite for viewing the video, are […]
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Statistics – Missing data can sometimes be ignored, and sometimes not (study)
When statisticians are confronted with sets of data, they occasionally find there are data missing. This phenomenon has been given the name ‘Missingness’. Sometimes, a decision is taken that these missing data can be ignored, in which case they are classed as ‘Ignorable Missingness’. But on occasion, some missing data just can’t be ignored. In […]
Data Communications via Wet String, or via Hungry Snail
A wet string works, for sending information from one computer to another, says a new experiment. This adds to the list of low-tech ways to move data, the most lively method involving a hungry snail. The string experiment is reported on the RevK’s Rants web site, with the headline “It’s official, ADSL works over wet […]
Schmutz: White Wine Invites Melanoma, and Coffee Discourages It?
Drinking alcohol — specifically, drinking white wine — may increase your change of getting melanoma, but drinking coffee may decrease your chance. That’s what this new study suggests. The study does not suggest, though we do, that you spend a few minutes exploring the ways that someone might find seemingly interesting things by the process […]
