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black swans & other matters
02.14.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

The Black Swan’s author may have at last given postmodernism something to hang its hat on. In particular, Taleb puts forth the notion that narrative-in-science, i.e., bell curves, misunderstood probability theory, confusing no-evidence and evidence-of-no, etc., lead to mass delusions regarding risk and leave us all with great big fat blind spots that cause us […]
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true dat
01.27.08 | Permalink | Comment?

I’m not the biggest fan of Frank Rich, but this is exemplary political analysis.
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progress?
01.24.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

Lose 50 40 pounds.
Drink 2 glasses of red wine daily. (started tonight)
Finish novel draft #2 by my birthday. (hacking away)
Strictly maintain schedule & priorities. (pretty damn good so far)
Eliminate soda from my diet. (had about a six pack so far…)
Cardio 30 minutes daily. (averaging about 3 days per week)
Blog daily. (not so much)
Write 3 […]
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sidebar
01.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

I hate it when personal websites or blogs degenerate into the RSS version of elderly relatives forwarding email memes, and because I’ve got a few presences webward, I have begun to worry that this space would devolve into a series of posts linking to me elsewhere, or linking to cool things I’ve read, or am […]

black swans & other matters