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Jogos Bayesianos e análise Bayesiana

Eu já vi várias vezes algumas pessoas argumentarem que economistas usam jogos Bayesianos, mas analisam os dados de forma frequentista, e que isso seria uma contradição, dissonância cognitiva, ou algo assim. Eu sempre torci o nariz para esse tipo de … Continue lendo

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I really like this one

From a comment on Andrew Gelman’s blog: When I went to college, one of the candidates for class president turned out to have copied his platform from a candidate a few years earlier. These things were mostly boilerplate (“I’ll improve the career … Continue lendo

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Making love out of nothing at all

I really like the minivan chase scene of the movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith, with the music “making love of  nothing at all” in the background. minivan chase

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Technocracy and all that

Excellent post by Henry ate the Croked Timber about the likely failure of technocracy in European Union (and the relevance of democracy). I do really think that everyone should read the post, although it may be quite hard for non … Continue lendo

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I’ll do that one day

Cosma shalizi makes an end of year inventory that it’s fairly funny (for nerds and academics simultaneously), and yet important for himself. Maybe I’ll do it myself here this week. Some notes for a complete post on this subject: manuscripts completed: … Continue lendo

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That Flying Bird…

Few months ago I wrote (in portuguese) about my worst-case scenario about the result of all the mess in US and specially Europe. Basically, the US and parts of Europe would recede to some kind of authoritarian government. I still … Continue lendo

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That modeling feeling and lost in translation

With some delay, my Friday post (on Saturday!). Andrew Gelman linked to a post by Kaiser Fung in which he described three hours in the life of a statistician (or data scientist, as Fung put). The post by Fung is … Continue lendo

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About Wall Street

I’ve been reading uncountable reactions in mainstream media about OWS and it’s amazing how they completly, totally, miss the point. Sometims, they think the OWS guys are hippies and, as if being a hippie were sufficient evidence that they’re wrong, … Continue lendo

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