Endings & beginnings
Update: Comments enabled now! Until further notice this is my last post as a blogger at Discover Magazine. This shouldn’t impact regular readers. As always you can follow me by going to: My feed, http://feeds.feedburner.com/RazibKhansTotalFeed My Twitter, https://twitter.com/razibkhan And of course, my website, http://www.razib.com From December 1st, 2013, I will be blogging at Ron Unz’s […]
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Open Thread, 11/17/2013
Finished J. P. Mallory’s The Origins of the Irish. Good book, but it was as illuminating as to the origins of the Irish as Danel Dennett’s Consciousness Explained was in explaining consciousness.
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Open Thread, 11/10/2013
Change is the only constant.
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Bring on 2013!
I didn’t post for the last week for two reasons. Christmas is a lot different when you have a child. The opportunity cost was just too high for me to really blog with gusto, so I didn’t. And in any case I suspect many of my readers were also busy with family or Caribbean vacations […]
Merry Christmas!
Because of the nature of modern American ‘work-life balance’ the next week or so is going to be my longest period of being the ‘primary caregiver’ for my daughter in her short life. Needless to say I’m quite excited! Especially because this will be her first Christmas. I spent most of my childhood in a […]
On getting gated papers
I get a fair number of emails (often press release blasts) to my public address, contactgnxp -at- gmail -dot- com. Of these a non-trivial are requests for papers. If I have access to a paper I always send that paper. That being said I’ve confused some of these emails for publicist-junk mail and what not. […]
Open Thread, 11-29-2012
Update: You can leave comments now. But, you are forced to register with no third party login option. I know many of you don’t like the last, because you are emailing me about it. If the quantity of responses (<5, vs. the usually of ~50 for an “open thread”) on this thread is a measure I […]
Open Thread, 11-08-2012
I’m at ASHG 2012, so tell me what’s going on in the world.
The oldies
One day my daughter will lament my antiquated taste in music. “Dad, how can you listen to that stuff?” Hey, we kept it real. Dial-up modems, no holo-touchscreens.
All original GSS analyses in charts are Creative Commons
Every now and then I get emails/inquiries about using my simple “quick & dirty” charts. I always give permission, and in fact I never complain when other (usually more popular!) weblogs use them. Even on the very rare occasions where at…
Open thread, 10-17-2012
Speak!
Singularity Summit 2012 – be there!
As regular readers know I have been to two previous Singularity Summits (2008 and 2010), and will be at the 2012 event. The speakers look particularly interesting to me this year. I may finally be stupid enough to blurt out to Vernor Vinge how awesome…
Reader survey results, biologists vs. non-scientists
There are now over 400 responses to the survey. Here is a link to the responses in CSV format. If you import this into R, an extra parameter in regards to encoding may be necessary:
responses=read.csv(“responses.csv”,sep=”\t”,header=TRUE,fileEncoding =…
Further survey results
I have now reformatted the responses into a csv file. So you can do something boring like create a scatterplot with Excel, as above. Or, you can import into R and dig for more interesting patterns. Here is an updated to the PDF which shows you the sim…
Reader survey results
I can’t send you to a direct link, so here are the results. Some of the results need to be crunched by me unfortunately. But here’s a sample (yes, I didn’t do much more than the basic R density plot).
Minor administrative notes
I’m a bad man, cluttering this weblog with administrative notices. But sometimes it needs to be done.
1) In case you don’t know, comment threads close after one week. As occurred this week, if you want to continue a thread, the weekly ̶…
A survey on genes, behavior, etc.
First, a minor note. People have repeatedly mentioned my Pinboard in the comments. This surprised me, as the kind of things I bookmark for later are very diverse and…interesting I suppose. Out of curiosity I checked to see how many people had use…
The end of blog & comments
Chad Orzel may be giving up blogging. And no, it’s not an April Fool’s Day joke. He’s been at it for 10 years, so no big surprise. I may be where he is at some point in the near future. For me, I always have something to say (or at le…
Another unsatisfied non-reader (Glenn Davey)
“Interesting” email from Glenn Davey objecting to the way in which I closed the thread on evolutionary psychology:
Why bother with a blog if you’re so bad with people?
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/07/the-end-of-evolutionary…
A quick note on comments policy
Happy Memorial Day weekend to Americans. In light of my various time pressures which are going to be operationally indefinite in their temporal scope for me I need to consider various options about optimizing the comments. I generally do rather well on…
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