Neither a Neuroscientist Nor a Statistician

A bunch of people I follow on social media were buzzing about this blog post yesterday, taking Jonah Lerher to task for “getting spun” in researching and writing this column in the Wall Street Journal about this paper on the “wisdom of crowds” effect. The effect in question is a staple of pop psychology these […]

PNAS: Adam DeConinck, High-Performance Computing Systems Engineer

(This post is part of the new round of interviews of non-academic scientists, giving the responses of Adam DeConinck, who works at a company providing supercomputing resources. The goal is to provide some additional information for science students thinking about their fiuture careers, describing options beyond the assumed default Ph.D.–post-doc–academic-job track.) 1) What is your […]

Links for 2011-05-31

Richard Dansky » Seven Questions That Need To Be Asked About Writing About Writing “1-Why do so many writers spend so much time writing about writing? Because deep down, many of us are still in thrall to the delightfully archaic notion of “Write What You Know” – which, in some form or other has been […]

The Born Equivocation

Last week’s post about the Many-Worlds variant in “Divided by Infinity” prompted the usual vigorous discussion about the merits of the Many-Worlds Interpretation. This included the common objection that we don’t know how to obtain the probability of measurement outcomes in the Many-Worlds Interpretation. This is one of those Deep Questions that lots of people […]

PNAS: Matthew Schlecht, Freelance Translator

(This post is part of the new round of interviews of non-academic scientists, giving the responses of Matthew Schlecht, a chemist by training who runs his own technical translation service, Word Alchemy Translation. The goal is to provide some additional information for science students thinking about their fiuture careers, describing options beyond the assumed default […]

Links for 2011-05-30

Guest Post from Author Nick Mamatas: “The Writer’s Life: Actually, It’s Awesome!” « Suvudu – Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, Comics, and Games “In my new book Starve Better, I talk about writing short subjects–both fiction and non-fiction–with an eye toward writing effectively and efficiently and making some money. Not good money so much […]