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I'm not sure that's really true. Take, for example, the Harry Potter movies. They were great, but imperfect, and were really well received. But they are still being readapted into …

According to disclosures: Less than 1% of NPRs budget comes from government grants ( https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finance... ). Other sources put it maybe a…

The base b here would be base 37.5 :)

A bit off topic, but William Dalrymple's book "The Anarchy" does an excellent job tracking the development of the East India Company from "the king gives you a right to establish t…

Early in my career, I worked for a company that had one of its five core values as "Maximize shareholder value" and these would get displayed all around the company (as if they wer…

In 1960, we had 16 MLB teams [1]. We currently have 30 [2]. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_in_baseball 2. https://www.espn.com/mlb/standings

> I think to reduce social media to some of the crappy jobs it does serve artificially diminishes what it can be. I agree completely with this. The article takes two bad parts of s…

I agree completely with this. I have an Applied Physics Ph.D. and have a similar experience. I think that if you are getting a Ph.D. for a reason other than enjoying the learning a…

Me too. If anything STEM is gaining steam.

To be fair, lots of local nightly news shows in America have local restaurant reviews. My parents live outside of Asheville, NC, and their local nightly news on all the broadcast c…

I wish there was more on the different types/uses of social media. Twitter != Facebook != Goodreads != HN and so on. Even within different social media there is varying uses - usin…

Agreed. But even RL is often difficult to transfer to other domains of knowledge. Though I agree that this is an important next challenge (and causality has been the "next challeng…

> “Lots of distributions give you straight-ish lines on a log-log plot” I agree. I don't remember the last time I've seen a log-log plot that doesn't look linear. I've never found …

I have a 5 year old who comes up with a new use for a pool noodle every time he's in the pool. A raft, an octopus, blowing water through it, a spy glass,... The simplest toys have …

I assumed it was a reference to the surface area of a sphere - which is 4 pi r^2. The point would still hold.

Which, in reality, the US did do with manifest destiny... Deciding to get the whole space from sea to shining sea...

JMP was precisely my counterargument to this whole piece. JMP is an excellent data science tool when used correctly and allows for reproducibility. You can even call R from JMP if …

But that seems like more of a problem with news in general than Facebook - nightly news/news websites include headlines and stories like that - but we shouldn't encourage people to…

"It seems to me that it's not so much that war "is illegal" as "certain countries have declared a monopoly on force and have the means to enforce it."" In some lines of thought, th…

I think this is a key point - too often, data "scientists" are brought in, given lots of tools, paid lots of money, and then told to just count things. And build dashboards that co…

When I was in grad school, this is how I traveled each summer with my brother and cousin. We'd pick a country and have our first night (maybe a couple of nights) accommodations pic…

I tend to think that this is a product of the "newness" of technologies. Old technologies - such as paper, pens, flush toilets, etc. - lasted in part because they were robust and n…

I usually wait a week for less biased, more reliable curated news ( http://theweek.com/ )

Agreed. PowerBI has so much more functionality - and more adding every month. And with the ability to use R to make charts, it has a lot more customizability.