Apparently, a NFL prospect revealed that a team asked him whether he would use a knife or a gun to kill someone as part of his interview. Personally, I want more weird questions like this one. It reminds me of the Browns asking a player what he'd do with a brick. There are so many possibilities; are…
My Personality Insights and Tone Analyzer
Based on Kevin's experiment from a few days ago, I decided to try out the personality analyzer. I started with a section of the first chapter of my dissertation and got the following: You are inner-directed, skeptical and can be perceived as insensitive. You are philosophical: you are open to and intrigued by new ideas…
Did a new engine for space exploration break the laws of physics?
No. I'm tempted to write more, but I think "no" sums it up.
This might be the greatest thing ever
Just read this article and look at the charts. Find yourself asking questions like How robust is my smile? or Is happiness a good thing? or How do I decrease my neuroticism by .2% and thus be the least neurotic player on my team? I really, really, want to take this test and figure out what my results are. I'm…
Get out of my computer, you damned (government) kids!
Wired has a brilliant article attacking self-limiting PC programs and related items. It's awesome and you should read it. It pretty much destroys any argument for legally restricting what computers can and cannot do, because it's too easy to get around any safeguards you employ.
So long, Adam Dunn
Fivethirtyeight has a nice write-up of Dunn's career. Part of me wonders if Adam Dunn's career -- a pretty good one at times, 2011 excepted -- is about as good as the Rob Deer/Russell Branyan type could expect. Dunn had some speed, too, earlier in his career with Cincinnati. Looking at his statistics, I can't help…
100% of the people reading this post are reading this post (and other lies about statistics)
A friend recently shared an article about the Ice Bucket Challenge that claimed only 27% of the money raised is going towards research. Here's the article. Here's the headline: ICE BUCKET CHALLENGE: ALS FOUNDATION ADMITS LESS THAN 27% OF DONATIONS FUND RESEARCH & CURES$95 Million Later: Only 27% Of Donations Actually Help ‘Research The Cure’I was pretty…
Josh Gordon is better than an air traffic controller
I'm not surprised that Josh Gordon's 1 year suspension was upheld. Here's what I did find surprising, courtesy of Dawgs by Nature:ESPN's Outside the Lines first broke the story of the impending suspension on the second day of the NFL Draft back in early May. Later report near the end of July revealed that Gordon had tested…
Elon Musk: World’s greatest pro wrestler? Or greatest human being?
Sadly, he is not a pro wrestler. But he is the CEO of Tesla Motors, and he just did something so awesome that he may qualify for greatest human being in the world. Let's set the brilliant title of his post aside for a moment. (Okay, giggle for a moment or two at the title.) Tesla…
Prontra Kevin: more on tuition costs
Yes, prontra is a portmanteau of pro and contra, as I am both in favor of and against some of Kevin's propositions. The subsidies I described are going to the universities, not to the students, in exchange for a reduction in tuition. More like agricultural subsidies in this sense. I think his cause #3 is…
36 Chambers - The Legendary Journeys: Execution to the max! 