Yesterday, there was one of those delightful cascades of randomness that change the arc of an expected evening. After dropping the littl...

Over the past few days, I've picked up another game for the PS3.  It's a bit outside of my usual pattern.  I rarely play JRPGs (Ja...

Thomas Bayes was the Presbyterian pastor who came up with the equation underlying all modern probability theory, but he was also a Nonconf...

One sure-fire, guaranteed way to drive down the blog traffic is to post about things no-one else on the planet cares about.   At this pa...

Before wandering into some reading of Rob Bell, I'm taking a detour. My recent completion of statistician Nate Silver's book clu...

The last few days, I've been working my way through Blaise Pascal's Pensees .   It's been a nifty read, a peculiarly rich mix...

As part of my tendency to read as widely and as wildly as I possibly can, the last few weeks have been spent nibbling away at Nate Silver...