David Packard got into computing at Cambridge, England writing programs to analyse grammatical cc constructions in Lucretius. He now funds the Packard humanities institute which does searchable datab… (View Post)

Lots of people like sailing for its own sake. It's also paradoxically very practical as all big sailboats also have engines so you have two entirely independent propulsion systems (View Post)

Lynch PhD was on Bayesian probability. It was his boat not charter. There are some serious ironies here. You would expect a smart cookie with a statistics background to think through the implications… (View Post)

I'll get back to you when I have adjusted my priors. (View Post)

What the article actually says is that Sweden's far right have engineered the reduction by making Sweden so unpleasant for asylum seekers that it might as well be Rwanda, and they are going elsewhere… (View Post)