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I agree with you that there's no real imperative for a sports league to need to "keep up" with technology. But one possible way to look at this is as a regulation on what technolog…

I wonder if in his installation of R he has ATLAS build in as the linear algebra workhorse. That seems to be optimized for something like this- I wonder how this would affect R's s…

The average American eats twice as many kilograms of meat than the next nationality (last time I checked it was the British). As the article states, beef is by far the most environ…

I don't know if this is a fair recapitulation of his "argument" - the three categories you are alluding to above were more criteria he offered for how you might judge the worth of …

I don't know if Ramsey's theorem really says anything as grand about disorder as Maxwell's demon and the like, but it does express something quantitative about the existence of sub…

While I appreciate Mike Rowe's sentiments and general argument, this speech reminds of politicians who lament the loss of manufacturing jobs as America's backbone. Economists have …

One interesting fact regarding population growth is that worldwide, having children on aggregate is a inferior good: if parts of Africa and Southeast Asia can make some significant…

While I don't doubt that in the future there may be some machine that can crunch logic at a ridiculous pace, Watson still seems far off from the AI the author here is alluding to. …