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...hmmm. Somehow I expected a blog entry about statistics. :-( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(statistics)

Would you please be so kind and explain in some more detail what you mean? Thank you!

You are really funny. You pretend to be the grown-up here and still write M$. :-)

What hasn't been mentioned yet is that Kubrick was inspired by the short story "The Sentinel" by AC Clarke. The monoliths in the short story are placed by intelligent beings throug…

The 128-bit storage of ZFS reminds me a bit of TeX. As far as I can remember reading the TeX book, Don Knuth also wanted to play it safe. Internally, everything relies on integers …

It is four weeks (minimum). Please check: http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/burlg/__3.html It is 24 working days and since Saturdays count as working days: 24 / 6 = 4 It is called …

It reminds me somehow of "Deconstructing My Car at the Detroit Airport" by Howard S. Schwartz. Originally published in "Organization Studies" 1993, Vol. 14, pp. 279-281. Link to th…

I wonder how large the proportion of social scientists is who actually know that Python is a programming language. (I am a social scientist myself). In my own experience, it is alr…

Uranus and Neptune, the two outermost planets? Still not used to the fact(?) that Pluto is not a planet anymore. :-/