The Mentaculus

1) In case you find yourself in an acute panic looking for a last-minute alternative for GR, I am now using Feedly as my RSS reader. I hav...

Yavchitz et al. looked at which factors correlated with the presence of "spin" in the reporting of medical randomized control...

In Ben Casnocha's reflections on writing his book The Start-Up Of You , he mentions this tidbit: When you embark on a project that’s...

Scott Aaronson explains the usefulness of the Church-Turing thesis in a way that makes intuitive sense to me, a newbie to TCS . Awesome! ...

Attention conservation notice : Review and notes from a book discussing an academic topic that will likely only interest you insofar as it ...

Stats questions--even when they're pure cut-and-dried homework--require dialog. Medicine might be a better analogy than software: what...

If I had accepted that leadership role, there would have been a lot of pressure on me to do something really exciting . I can sometimes do...

Intensive rice agriculture began in the Yangtze basin about 8,000 years BP, a sustainable model for agriculture by any reasonable standard...

Bob Carpenter has a few enlightening thoughts on the distinctions between 1) the sample mean, 2) the expected value of a random variable, ...

One of the hardest things we can do as readers is disagree with the methods of authors we agree with ideologically. It makes us feel good ...

A difficulty with the “more data is better” point of view is that it’s not clear how to determine what the tradeoffs are in practice: is t...

In many American states it is legal to screen and select on the basis of sex, for non-medical reasons. In fact, a 2006 study (see below) f...

Here's Nancy Kanwisher's suggestion on how to improve the field of neuroimaging: NIH sets up a web lottery, for real money, in w...

In a comment to my post on  how our regrets change over time , Eric Schwitzgebel asks,  But why adopt regret minimization as a goal at ...