Given my departure from MIT, and the inevitable day when birge@mit.edu ceases to be treated with any respect by MIT’s servers, I’ve moved this site to new environs:
Everything on this will be archived there, though links to old posts here should continue to work for a while.
I occasionally like to make predictions about the stock market. I’m hoping that if I’m ever right, I can parlay the retroactive correctness into fame and fortune as a stock market guru. After all, that’s how stopped clock bears like Mish Shedlock, Karl Denninger and the “evil speculator” worked it. Those that were right about [...]
I ran into what is apparently a not uncommon problem with iPhone video: you start to take a video while the camera is in portrait mode (just by accident of how you’re holding it) and then the rest of the video is stuck that way, even if you took 99% of it in landscape mode. [...]
For some reason I decided to take a look at the top 50 most played songs on my iPod. Here they are, listed from 5 to 1.
Rank Title Artist Number of Times Played 5. Many the Miles Sara Bareilles 66 4. Fireflies Owl City 67 3. The Wider Sun Jon Hopkins 81 2. Baby [...]
Ok, I know I promised no more useless political banter, but I think I’ll grandfather in follow-up posts to old articles. A while back I wrote about my “conspiracy” theory that Obama pushed through a health care reform bill that he knew would be struck down as unconstitutional, to set himself up for [...]
Or maybe it would be more accurate to say that ESP proves frequentist statistics isn’t real. In what has got to be one of the best object lessons in why hypothesis testing (the same statistical method usually used by the medical research industry to produce the Scare of the Week) is prone to generate false [...]
If you don’t have a Mac, or don’t know what SVN is, please accept my apologies for this very directed post. To the one guy remaining, rejoice:
For the longest time, there has been no good SVN interface available on the Mac. Windows folks had TortoiseSVN, and Linux folks wouldn’t be caught dead using anything [...]
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