Reuben

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Name: Reuben Gann
Date registered: 11/30/-0001

Latest posts

  1. An illuminating trip to the Microsoft store — 12/29/2013
  2. Netflix streaming continues to founder as dozens of prominent movies are taken down — 12/28/2013
  3. Saints Row IV is the most fun I've had playing a game — 11/19/2013
  4. Statisticians need to see how experimental science really works, then shut up about it — 11/13/2013
  5. Surface Pro 2: first impressions — 10/24/2013

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Aug 19 2010

How stupid is the 400,000 cat canard?

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General

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Referring to this story about how one unspayed cat can spawn 420,000 cats in 5 years, I wanted to see, just how stupid is this? Of course, it seems pretty stupid on a practical level. But that's not enough to say. There are a few parameters that are relevant in the model. Suppose we start …

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Aug 10 2010

Abandon all hope

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Politics

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The administration has lost it, and Republicans are poised to retake both houses of congress. This isn't good.

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Jul 28 2010

Rant: How did they fuck up the Silent Hill movie so bad?

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Film, Video games

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My apologies to James Rolfe. Silent Hill is a good franchise, all said. The first two games are quite good, with the second being among many people's top 10 of all time (including my own. Actually, I would rank it number 2 or 3). Now, I'm not a fanboy; I really didn't expect the movie …

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Jul 23 2010

Unsurprisingly, Prop 19 trails in Field Poll

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Politics

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CA Prop 19, about which I have always been pessimistic, is losing by 4 points. A Field Poll released July 9th shows it trailing 44-48, with more than three-fourths of voters being aware of the bill. Among those not familiar, it is opposed 2:1, indicating that when those voters go, the proposition will lose by …

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Jul 20 2010

What I don't know

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Politics

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I would describe my current outlook on the world as 'worried, but weary'. That is, I know what is wrong with the world, I can describe it in some detail and with the important numbers. I can cite the important policy questions and possible alternatives. And yet, at every juncture, I am unable to pick …

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