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Monthly Archive April, 2017

New York City streets are not as regular as you might think

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THINGS THAT ARE NOT CONTAINED IN OUR MENTAL MODELS The inaccurately named blog Stuff Nobody Cares About did a post on something we do care about. They got an old data table that shows that the distances between streets, the distances between avenues, and the width of street and avenues in New York City varies […]

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Another rule of three, this one in statistics

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Here’s another rule of three, this one in statistics.

Darwin, the rule of three, and little use for higher mathematics

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Who knew that Darwin and Pearson had little faith in fancy math?