Tag: Science


  • links for 2007-10-10

    Bug ID: 6598410 JVM 1.4.2_14 core dumps in CMS processing references (tags: java Blackboard_Vista garbage-collection) Google Talk (tags: communication Gmail google im chat web2.0 widgets collaboration gadgets social) More Evidence on the (Lack of) Impact of School Choice – Freakonomics – Opinion – New York Times Blog (tags: economics education parenting) BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: What’s…

  • Online Experiments (tags: science learning physics kids education) Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science (tags: education evolution science learning)

  • links for 2007-09-27

    Nerds to auction themselves to women – Yahoo! News (tags: news nerd) ASP.NET AJAX and Performance: Loadrunner 9.0 new features and problems (tags: load_testing.mercury) Sept. 26, 1983: The Man Who Saved the World by Doing … Nothing (tags: history) HP Customer Perspective: HP LoadRunner software – Tips and Tricks for Configuration, Scripting, and Execution –…

  • links for 2007-09-24

    Science Journal – WSJ.com (tags: economics science statistics medicine research)

  • Most Studies Are Wrong

    Science Journal – WSJ.com: Statistically speaking, science suffers from an excess of significance. Overeager researchers often tinker too much with the statistical variables of their analysis to coax any meaningful insight from their data sets. “People are messing around with the data to find anything that seems significant, to show they have found something that…

  • links for 2007-09-22

    Cognitive Daily: The curse of knowledge: Mistaking your beliefs for those of others (tags: science Psychology)

  • links for 2007-09-16

    Steve Salerno on the Self-Help Dangers on National Review Online (tags: science.psychology)

  • links for 2007-09-11

    Running SQLPlus and PL/SQL Commands From A Shell Script | TimArcher.com (tags: oracle sqlplus shell scripting) Babel’s Dawn: Pinker’s Anti-Whorfian Hypothesis (tags: science.psychology books linguistics evolution)

  • I posted a quote about insanity yesterday. I first saw the quote with “computer science” replacing insanity. Its hyperbole to be sure. There is a measure of truth. Out of 18 installs, on average 3 had bad installs. Using the exact same install method (which doesn’t have a human involved, completely scripted) again, a good…