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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Q: What advice would you give a college freshman in the Boston area to make life easy, fun, and successful?
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Get out and enjoy all that Boston has to offer! Spend the summers here -- Boston is beautiful in the summer. Get a guidebook and peruse it. ...
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Sunday, June 13, 2010
Q: What is the difference between Bayesian and frequentist statistics?
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Mathematically speaking, frequentist and Bayesian methods differ in what they care about, and the kind of errors they're willing to acce...
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Q: Did MIT's decline (outside of biology and life sciences) begin shortly before WW2?
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The democratization of electronics -- made possible by transistors and integrated circuits, among other things -- surely contributed to a de...
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Q: What are all the terms used when negotiating with reporters about sourcing and attribution?
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Forget the jargon -- the important thing is to reach a meeting of the minds with the reporter about the conditions imposed on the interview ...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Q: Do sailors today regularly rely on any tools that sailors two hundred years ago used?
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Sure, how about: Crew knife Ship's compass Hand bearing compass Telescope/binoculars Marlinspike Sextant (still required to earn ...
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