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Big Data Without Statisticians: BD2K Symposium At UCLA

March 26, 2014
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UCLA is having a big data conference on Thursday and Friday Mar 27, 28 2014.  The conference is organized by four computer science and genomic biology types. Speakers cluster [one of the rare appropriate uses of cluster analysis I know of] into three...

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Big Data Without Statisticians: BD2K Symposium At UCLA

March 26, 2014
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UCLA is having a big data conference on Thursday and Friday Mar 27, 28 2014.  The conference is organized by four computer science and genomic biology types. Speakers cluster [one of the rare appropriate uses of cluster analysis I know of] into three...

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Seymour Geisser and Me

March 24, 2014
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A few stories from graduate school at the University of Minnesota School of Statistics where Seymour Geisser was head. I didn't have as many interactions with Seymour as some folks did, but his philosophy certainly influenced me. Perhaps I'll detail hi...

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Seymour Geisser and Me

March 24, 2014
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A few stories from graduate school at the University of Minnesota School of Statistics where Seymour Geisser was head. I didn't have as many interactions with Seymour as some folks did, but his philosophy certainly influenced me. Perhaps I'll detail hi...

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Short Review: How Children Succeed

March 8, 2014
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How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough Unless your definition of children includes college students, the second word of the title is a misnomer. This book is about how young people, from infants to colleg...

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Short Review: How Children Succeed

March 8, 2014
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How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough Unless your definition of children includes college students, the second word of the title is a misnomer. This book is about how young people, from infants to colleg...

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Remembering Seymour Geisser

March 5, 2014
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Remembering Seymour Geisser

This is the text, minus the nice formatting, of an email from Dennis Cook (my thesis advisor and current director of the U of MN School of Statistics) and Wes Johnson (a U of MN alum, a good friend, a great colleague and a student of Seymour Geisser's)...

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Remembering Seymour Geisser

March 5, 2014
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Remembering Seymour Geisser

This is the text, minus the nice formatting, of an email from Dennis Cook (my thesis advisor and current director of the U of MN School of Statistics) and Wes Johnson (a U of MN alum, a good friend, a great colleague and a student of Seymour Geisser's)...

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Short Review: the War of Art by Steven Pressfield

March 2, 2014
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The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle by Steven Pressfield Pressfield is the author of several bestsellers. The War of Art is a 12 step self-help support group for procrastinators, a biological and psychological disection of procrastination...

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Short Review: the War of Art by Steven Pressfield

March 2, 2014
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The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle by Steven Pressfield Pressfield is the author of several bestsellers. The War of Art is a 12 step self-help support group for procrastinators, a biological and psychological disection of procrastination...

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