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"The Theory that Would Not Die" by Sharon McGrayne has a good chapter on this, book is a more general history of Bayesian statistics.

Turing's Cathedral by George Dyson

My personal favorite is Richard McElreath's "Statistical Rethinking", which covers regression and multilevel modeling from a Bayesian approach but doesn't assume too much formal ma…

Yeah I'm familiar with the area (about to move from South Bend to Chicago). There's a lot of effort going into building a startup scene in South Bend, both around the Innovation an…

Inter Alia, this article is another piece of evidence that a lot of pretty smart people are stuck in jobs that aren’t very complex. The accumulated cost of this to the rest of us i…

Unfortunately mandatory parking minimums are written into the zoning codes of most American cities, leading to the surfeit of parking in lots of places. Undoing this will take no s…

It’s interesting to see the America's most prominent libertarian economist state that capital markets aren’t adequately funding risky business ventures...

I tip my cap to all the loyal users of MoviePass out there; I have long waited for the day when investors would be willing to subsidize my hobbies and you've been living in that wo…

Pointless jobs abound in both the public and private sectors, but I think these articles resonate because so many white collar workers are largely occupied with projects that will …

+1 to this. Make them public parks that everyone can enjoy.

You're welcome, America. Will anyone really miss Buffalo Wild Wings? Or Golf? I suspect we drink just as much beer, it's just more craft beer than Sam Adams or Corona. The 'Millenn…

The 'rise of passive investors' creates more opportunities for activist investors to discover overvalued/undervalued stocks. Index funds aren't affecting the prices of individual s…

Anyone else subscribe to Pinboard primarily to support Maciej's writing/organizing? It's like the fair trade coffee of online bookmarking services.

To those of you who hate R, consider investing 1/2 hour to learn the dplyr package. Dplyr is, in my view, Hadley Wickham's real masterpiece and is why I use R for most data analysi…

These calculations seem fishy, for reasons stated above and others (e.g. why 20-year ROI? why exclude graduate degree holders?). However, it is true that rising education costs are…

24K. See: https://blog.pinboard.in/2016/07/pinboard_turns_seven/

Good for you! Your attitude is inspiring.

Writing a full reply since I don't agree with much of the advice given. I've worked around/in data science teams at a large BigCo and I think that you're far overestimating the bar…

+1 to this. SQL + Logistic regression creates millions of dollars in business value every year. Some of that could be yours!

Hacker News, Marginal Revolution, Netflix?

People who see something wrong with your question/project/link tend to be more motivated to comment, which I think explains some of what you're talking about. The other way may be …

I recommend John Guttag's Intro to Computation and Programming Using Python to people interested in starting to code, as the accompanying video lectures are available on MIT OCW an…

My favorite Grand Central easter egg is the 'Whispering Arch' by the Oyster Bar. Standing in one corner, you can speak into the wall and be heard by someone standing in the opposit…

Can someone provide a motivating example here? I'm not opposed to reading this, but don't understand why I should.