I’m the first to admit it: we might be popular, we might create a lot of great relationships, we might blah blah blah. But OkCupid doesn’t really know what it’s doing. Neither does any other website.
Month: July 2014
Co-creating Our ‘Unprestatable’ World
Is living a computable complex optimization problem? This is precisely the framework of economic theory, the theory that drives so much of our policy.
Reading “Complexity and the art of Public Policy”
La verdad acerca de Pablo Iglesias y su partido político Podemos — Acapulco70
Este es simplemente UNO de argumentos falaces que usa Podemos para convencer a quienes desean ser convencidos.
Pablo Iglesias es probablemente el político que más sabe de comunicación política de la historia de España http://bit.ly/1sDM9zk Pero es que además clava el squinching http://bit.ly/1rvwdPd ya quisieran muchos modelos de Calvin Klein hacerlo tan bien como él
foto vía buenafuentefotografia
Alberto Cairo: Data journalism needs to up its own standards
Did you know that wearing a helmet when riding a bike may be bad for you? Or that it’s possible to infer the rise of kidnappings in Nigeria from news reports? Or that we can predict the year when a majority of Americans will reject the death penalty (hint: 2044)? Or that it’s possible to see t
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Learning From @NateSilver538’s OMG-Wrong #Bra vs #Ger Prediction
So, that was a bit of a shocker, to say the least. Brazil lost 7-1 to Germany, in World Cup semi-finals—this rarely happens to Brazil, and this rarely happens to any team at that level.
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