• October 19, 2010

    World Statistics Day is 2010 October 20.  If you work with data or you should, then you are a statistician and this is a day for you. Try the [...]

  • September 7, 2010

    The current New Scientist includes an article about perception switching.  They use the figure below. "Why your brain flips over visual illusions" is about the brain and perceptual switching [...]

  • August 25, 2010

    When I first came to finance, I kept hearing about "risk models". I wondered, "What the hell is a risk model?" Of course, I didn't say this out loud [...]