I've been going through old boxes of paper, looking for (the very small fraction of) stuff that I want to keep, and recycling the rest. I'm uncovering many interesting memories, as well as a few things that I have no recollection of at all. Representing the latter category is a faded xerox of the cartoon reproduced below. From the surrounding strata, my copy can be dated to 1988.
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Today's Dinosaur Comics:
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The last two panels of today's SMBC:
For background, see "Buffaloing buffalo", 1/20/2005.
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It's been so long since I posted that my to-blog list is on the verge of self-awareness, as prefigured in this SMBC comic:
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A recent xkcd suggests the geothmetic meandian:
Mouseover title: "Pythagorean means are nice and all, but throwing the median in the pot is really what turns this into random forest statistics: applying every function you can think of, and then gradually dropping the ones that make the result worse."
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