Around the interwebs

three toed sloth strikes again: logistic regression

via Observational Epidemiology , best blog of the day with link to great history of mathematics

scott adams does his best to keep us all a little happier 

Weekend in review

What Dr. Suess books are really about. 

The Friedman Unit.

Tips on how to make a small business seem much bigger.

Great quote:

…bolstering the living standards of old people is an economically inefficient undertaking that we sentimental human beings find ethically appealing...As a “business strategy” it’s ridiculous—on a par with preserving the natural beauty of the Grand Canyon or having the military pay health care costs of soldiers who are too injured to fight—but that’s because it’s not a business strategy.

Grab Bag

• Great article on using R for Kalman Filtering.

• Really cool video on the effects of placebo.  Cannot remember where I came across that one- which probably means AS.

• tumblr find of the day: