Other duties have prevented me from posting as much as I'd like to for the past couple of months, but now that the summer is really upon us I am going to try to make more regular appearances. I received a query from a reader that seemed quite appropriate for the...
Nemesis. No, I don't mean the tenth Star Trek film, a film that many of us Trekkers would like to simply imagine never happened (and thanks to J. J. Abrams' rebooting of the franchise, we now can)....
Fascinating little op-ed over at The Guardian Online today (h/t Jesse Crane-Seeber) called, provocatively, "Scientists should stop deceiving us." The punchline of the piece is that "in holding that...
Vikash's comment on my announcement post suggests to me that it might be useful to have a less elliptical and, so to speak, inside-baseball-y declaration of intent for the Methodology411. Even...
Spring is around the corner, which means that baseball season is finally getting underway. Amidst the spring training games and the speculations about the upcoming season, one can find the clear signs of the truly obsessed -- the fantasy baseball players -- ramping up their debates about how to select players in their fantasy league drafts, weighing the relative importance of slugging percentage versus base-stealing ability, and generally working to find the best strategy for success in this bizzare kind of second-order competition.Yes, I'm among them. Guilty. I am a big fan of second-order...