→ Read morewhile talking about animals seems easy, a thorough analysis on cats is a nightmare. let us see the dogs. stereotypes about dogs are more clear-cut: common sense conceptualize them as long standing markers of faithfullness, accuracy, and addiction to well known spaces.
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McCloskey and Ziliak vs. Hoover and Siegler, from the (very welcome, long overdue…) statistician’s perspective. Gelman has extremely interesting points and I agree with most of them, except that I think (and he partially admits…) he does not know much (euphemism…) about the rational addiction & co literature, so let us leave that point out, shall we (in any case it is not related to the matter at hand)…
This is a Great week
… and not only because 6 (six) of the emails I so far received within the last three days (out of a few dozen, true…) simply stated “Great!”. One word, one line, nothing more, nothing less. → Read more
Schubert meets Piazzolla in Amsterdam
…or Schubert young+Piazzolla+Schubert old. All that yesterday evening at the Concertgebouw, in a superlative interpretation of the Artemis Quartet (see also here), joined by pianist Jacques Ammon. This time they’ve been even more impressive than almost 5 years ago, when I witnessed them giving a lesson of Schumann interpretation, in the very same place.
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