Andrew Gelman is quoted as saying that 2000 was the stone age in recognizing statistical error. Has statistics really come that far in 20 years?

No. But non-statisticians' understanding of it has improved. Scientists who've been exposed to R, say, can't be as ignorant of statistics as was common a generation ago.

I can't say it's terribly impressive, but I've collected my performance at 90% of my gym visits over the last two years. Sheets has been very convenient in keeping myself on-track. I'm thinking about taking a weekend to clean the data and graph some trends or normalize my rep counts/distance/times into a single index I can use along with my weight to quickly assess "how I'm doing".

I think the speech agrees with you, more or less.

On becoming a god in Central Florida and Chernobyl were both real solid. If we can go back a few years, so were The Young Pope and Mad Men.

Can anyone help me out in understanding how green energy is going to kneecap oil? I know the costs have gone down some, but iirc total oil energy produced/consumed is still orders of magnitude higher. Additionally, the margins on oil are still wide enough to absorb a lot of competition from wind, geothermal and solar.

Thinkpad x220,IPS model, running xubuntu. Display is lacking, so I wouldn't use it for illustration work. Otherwise, it has been months since I opened my mbp.

>A copy of the painting can serve for viewing nearly as well as the original.

Maybe for a lay-viewer. As an amateur realist painter, even the very best prints seem to lose 75-80% of the mark-making and process clues that are easily observable in originals.

I use the free fillable forms. Happy with it every year so far. If turbo tax makes them go away, I'll get real politically involved real quick.

A private company stills gets your data. You are not filling directly with the IRS.

What form? do you mean just sending letters to my reps?

I imagine the same ones available before computers were widely available. You used to be able to pick them up at the local library.

I had hoped to see a comment like this about Vice higher up. I find that their content is usually insubstantial, and when it is otherwise, facts are presented or omitted staggeringly skewed fashion for maximum emotional engagement. In short, if you want to feel strongly about misinformation and partial-truths, Vice is the outlet for you.