I went off Nate Silver a bit when I read The Signal and the Noise because I thought he was a bit scanty in explaining Bayesian analysis but mostly because he goes on about how true Bayesians should be prepared to back up their assessments of probabilities with a wager …

The third in a series of posts about how we think about coding and functional programming. The first was The Homunculus and the second was State

The subsections of programs referred to in the previous section are often called functions. In mathematics, the term function has a fairly strict definition …

Here are several sequences which ran on FSVO earlier this year.

The LITANY OF INFINITY - an incomplete catalogue of transfinite cardinals

MANY MOONS - a catalogue of the nature, population and attributes of the Solar System's satellites

An essay on MIGRATORY WORDS, their seasonal habits and reproductive cycle