Thinking Out Aloud

A useful podcast on what data science is, how to use and what gets in the way of using it. Part of a continuing series .

I find the persistence of belief in socialism surprising (an example here ), particularly given that Venezuela and North Korea both, in t...

This is based on a comment I made here . If turning points in asset prices could be reliably predicted, they wouldn't happen (since n...

Ron Unz has produced two pieces of statistical analysis on ethnicity and crime in the US providing evidence that there is no distinctive t...

I am a great admirer of work of the C14th Muslim intellectual Abū Zayd ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Khaldūn al-Ḥaḍramī (1332-1406), know...

We are about three years away from the centenary of the (third) Palestine Arab Conference in December 1920 which demanded an end to Jewish...