The classic video has now been upgraded with more unexpected stuff.
http://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com/
http://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com/
http://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com/
“A bit over two weeks ago, a group of statistic wizards (Mark Grebner, Michael Weissman, and Jonathan Weissman) approached me with a disturbing premise — they had been poring over the crosstabs of the weekly Research 2000 polling we had been running, and were concerned that the numbers weren’t legit.
I immediately began cooperating with their investigation, which concluded late last week. Daily Kos furnished the researchers with all available and relevant information in our possession, and we made every attempt to obtain R2K’s cooperation — which, as I detail in my reaction post here — was not forthcoming. The investigators’ report is below, but its conclusion speaks volumes:
We do not know exactly how the weekly R2K results were created, but we are confident they could not accurately describe random polls.”
The full story:
http://tinyurl.com/2vjpr22
http://tinyurl.com/2vjpr22
http://tinyurl.com/2vjpr22
Feel so related.
‘The Indiana Pi Bill is the popular name for bill #246 of the 1897 sitting of the Indiana General Assembly, one of the most famous attempts to establish scientific truth by legislative fiat. Despite that name, the main result claimed by the bill is a method to square the circle, rather than to establish a certain value for π, although the bill does contain text that appears to dictate various incorrect values of π, such as 3.2.’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
I can totally see our president trying for it.
My (short, late and uninteresting) take on Harry Potter:
1. B1&2 are fun to read and they are a decent start to the series.
2. B3&4 are pretty good. B4 has been one of my favorite reads in 2010.
3. B5 made me want to kill myself. It is super long, super slow and I couldn’t care less about some of it.
4. B6 was just ok, but quoting Nacho: ‘It has the best cliffhanger ever”.
5. Book 7 was a decent end, even tho there was a point were I thought I wasn’t gonna like it.
I also tried watching the movies, but I thought the first one was very bad and couldn’t keep going.
Based on Pink’s Drive. Really good.
My so called life* 