There's a list of articles, on a nice convenient page with links to each ( Read more... )

At work, I predict insurance (auto and homeowners) losses based on customer characteristics. We have a dependent variable (losses), and various predictors (e.g., age, gender, marital status, etc.).

Age and marital status are correlated: older people are more likely to be married. If you take an extremely simplistic approach to forming predictions ( Read more... )

I just heard about this. I don't think I can put my feelings into words at the moment ( Read more... )

I made a neat animation of some Australian traffic data.

The guy who hit me (I'm fine--car isn't too badly off either) has Geico insurance. Anyone have claims experience with Geico?

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eMusic seems to do this thing where if you didn't use your account for a long time, it'll give you a free month. Makes sense: I guess it's to keep people from getting bitter about having paid for downloads they didn't use (since you can't keep them from month to month...). So you get a free month, instead of canceling. And then go back to being an ( Read more... )

I'm aware of the tipping etiquette rule about not tipping people owning their own business. But I dunno, even ignoring tips, the price of this haircut was on the low end, and I thought he did a really good job, and saw me during his lunch hour... and how can I be completely sure he owns the business anyway... so I dunno. He didn't take the extra ( ( Read more... )

Yes, mixing hot milk, cocoa, and sugar is a good idea. But really a much better idea when you add cinnamon and vanilla. And why don't you bring yourself some almond milk from Rogers Park? It's ridiculously much better than soy milk.

That's better than soy milk, by a ridiculously much amount, not ridiculously, much better than soy milk. It's not ( Read more... )

I didn't even know Howard Zinn was dead until I read a blog I like (The Feminist Agenda) complaining about the coverage he's received on NPR, which apparently called him a 'revisionist.'

...It only makes sense to call someone like Zinn a revisionist if you believe that there is such a thing as history-with-a-capital-H. Like History from the God's- ( Read more... )