Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science: The fallacy of the one-sided bet (for example, risk, God, torture, and lottery tickets) A good post from a great blog! Technorati Tags: bayes, statistics
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Here in quick succession another fractal link: I am especially fascinated by this, because ever since seeing the picture by Escher I have wondered why he didn’t fill in the middle and that there must be a way to do this. This site has all the details. In 1956, Maurits Cornelis Escher completed a drawing [...]
Fractals are a wonderful way of exploring beauty in mathematics. A Spektrum der Wissenschaft article (the German SciAm) alerted me to this site which is a nice intro the art of fractals. Mathematical imagery by Jos Leys. Technorati Tags: fractals, mathematics
Check this out, awesome! What do we hear with our eyes? | Science & Consciousness Review The McGurk Effect demonstrates that we integrate sensory information unconsciously, reminding us that there is a lot more going on inside our heads than we may think. Technorati Tags: cognitive science
As I always have to cite this when communication miserably fails, I might as well put it on my blog. Be sure to read the commentary from Korpela. Four Principles of Interpersonal Communication Osmo Wiio gives us some communication maxims similar to Murphy’s law (Osmo Wiio, Wiio’s Laws–and Some Others (Espoo, Finland: Welin-Goos, 1978): * [...]
