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“Experience keeps a dear school but fools will learn in no other”
-Benjamin Franklin
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Gambling and Polling
I learned statistics before I learned polling. While most mathematics came from academics, statistics came from gamblers. When the folks who are doing the polls aren’t coming up with data that provides answers, it can be advantageous to go back to our statistical roots – and with the internet, that’s fairly easy. I’ve watched Nate Read more
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Democracy in Lincoln County
Further comment unnecessary. Read more
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On polarized lenses.
I recently got a pair of polarized prescription glasses, and have been amazed by how much better I am able to see the world, particularly when driving in the morning and evening, confronted by people’s bright headlights. While they do make my world noticeably dimmer, they bring out many small details, and seem to make Read more
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Bump Stocks and the 5th Amendment
I never paid a lot of attention to the fifth amendment – but I listened to a podcast by a guy named William Kirk, about a potential Supreme Court case on the bump stock ban – and it isn’t a second amendment case, it’s a fifth amendment case. Here’s the whole fifth amendment: “No person Read more
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Time Zones
The map of time zones is more social than mathematical. As I look at this map, I realize that I gained Mike Jandreau, Tribal Chairman of the Lower Brule, as a friend. I showed up an hour early (to be fair, it was my third day at South Dakota State University) because I was on Read more
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A message delayed by dementia
We unpacked a small package of coins that were in my mother-in-law’s home when she died. Obviously there was some value – but we hadn’t gone through them. The 50 “junk silver” mercury dimes showed she had decided to invest in some silver coins – and got us looking at everything. The pre-war Soviet coins Read more
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