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A blog at brenbarn.net. Supreme Court voting patterns ». Programming languages: quality, popularity, and versatility. If you haven’t seen The Right Tool. In a happy twist of fate, I recently discovered that raw data from The Right Tool is available. Because it’s. . . an interesting question! The data I downloaded from the right tool has 109 statements. I categorized each statement as being in zero or more of three categories:. This category also includes good and bad things that extend beyond the languag...
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A blog at brenbarn.net. Thinking about these kinds of things is sort of a hobby of mine. When I intuitively sense a similarity or difference in some set of stuff, I like to probe that intuition, test it, and see if I can draw out its logic and make it explicit. Likewise, whn I. See a similarity or difference among some things, but I need to organize them somehow, I like to explore the space of the attributes of those things, to try to discover what the relevant dimensions are. Posted 2015/04/29 at 15:05.
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A blog at brenbarn.net. Test 1 2 3. Scrabble: what makes good players good ». Good days, mate. I’ve always been kind of intrigued by climatology and meteorology. Whenever I read Wikipedia articles about random places, I take special interest in looking at the climate section (if there is one) and seeing the little chart and (hopefully) graph of the temperature and precipitation over the course of the year. What makes a climate nice. It’s not just a matter of the. Temperature, since that doesn’t tak...
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A blog at brenbarn.net. Monthly Archives: August 2012. 2012/08/01 – 21:22. After reading my last Scrabble post, someone suggested that it would be useful to see a sort of “utilitarian” breakdown of Scrabble words. That is, which words are the most useful to know? Answering this question is trickier than it might seem. Theme: Sandbox 1.1.
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A blog at brenbarn.net. Good days, mate. Useful Scrabble words ». Scrabble: what makes good players good. I play a lot of Scrabble. In this day and age, it’s often a point of pride for people to say they’re not on Facebook. Well, I’m on Facebook, but most of my time on the site is spent playing other people with the Scrabble app. Inevitably, of course, I found myself wondering: What is it that makes good Scrabble players good? Like, what do they do differently? So that’s what I did. It took me ...One coo...
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A blog at brenbarn.net. Supreme Court voting patterns. 2013/08/02 – 00:41. In the past few years, the US Supreme Court has handed down a number of high-profile decisions with a 5-4 majority. In the most recent term, these included the two gay-marriage cases Hollingsworth v. Perry and United States v. Windsor, as well as the voting-rights case Shelby County v. Holder. In the previous term there […]. Programming languages: quality, popularity, and versatility. 2013/04/11 – 22:39. 2012/08/01 – 21:22. I play...
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A blog at brenbarn.net. Monthly Archives: August 2013. Supreme Court voting patterns. 2013/08/02 – 00:41. In the past few years, the US Supreme Court has handed down a number of high-profile decisions with a 5-4 majority. In the most recent term, these included the two gay-marriage cases Hollingsworth v. Perry and United States v. Windsor, as well as the voting-rights case Shelby County v. Holder. In the previous term there […]. Theme: Sandbox 1.1.
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A blog at brenbarn.net. Supreme Court voting patterns. 2013/08/02 – 00:41. In the past few years, the US Supreme Court has handed down a number of high-profile decisions with a 5-4 majority. In the most recent term, these included the two gay-marriage cases Hollingsworth v. Perry and United States v. Windsor, as well as the voting-rights case Shelby County v. Holder. In the previous term there […]. Programming languages: quality, popularity, and versatility. 2013/04/11 – 22:39. 2012/08/01 – 21:22. I play...
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A blog at brenbarn.net. Programming languages: quality, popularity, and versatility. Supreme Court voting patterns. In the past few years, the US Supreme Court has handed down a number of high-profile decisions with a 5-4 majority. In the most recent term, these included the two gay-marriage cases Hollingsworth v. Perry. And United States v. Windsor. As well as the voting-rights case Shelby County v. Holder. Are there really more 5-4 decisions than there used to be? In all the discussion below, I exclude...
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A blog at brenbarn.net. Tag Archives: law voting. Supreme Court voting patterns. 2013/08/02 – 00:41. In the past few years, the US Supreme Court has handed down a number of high-profile decisions with a 5-4 majority. In the most recent term, these included the two gay-marriage cases Hollingsworth v. Perry and United States v. Windsor, as well as the voting-rights case Shelby County v. Holder. In the previous term there […]. Theme: Sandbox 1.1.