Archive for August, 2017
A Data Broker Offers a Peek Behind the Curtain – NYTimes.com
August 27, 2017A Data Broker Offers a Peek Behind the Curtain: site listing what’s compiled about you
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/business/a-data-broker-offers-a-peek-behind-the-curtain.html MT @robert_schiff #privacy
site = http:aboutthedata.com
Randal Bryant – Wikipedia
August 27, 2017Jim Gray (computer scientist) – Wikipedia
August 27, 2017Using Mobile Devices With Workday | Workday@Yale Training
August 27, 2017http://workday.training.yale.edu/training-materials/using-mobile-devices-workday
iphone app appears to work….
Pools in the New Haven Area
August 27, 2017Notes on local INDOOR swimming pools:
* Cheshire Community Pool
Great pool, lots of room, pay per swim
http://www.cheshirect.org/recreation-and-leisure/community-pool/
* JCC of Greater New Haven
Membership for this pool? ~$30 for adults?
(allows 1-day visiting swim w/o membership)
A bit crowded during open swim.
https://www.jccnh.org
JCC is located at 360 Amity Road, Woodbridge, CT.
* Soundview (Branford) YMCA Pool
Requires a membership, but it has two pools and usually a lot of space http://www.cccymca.org/locations/soundview/
* Hamden Hall’s pool
Only open for HH affiliated people or for large group bookings
* Small pool (~15 yds) at the Guilford Racquet and Swim club https://www.guilfordracquet.com/page.lasso?p=content-swim
other than this, there is no public pool in Guilford
* Yale Swimming Pool
Requires a membership, but the third
floor pool is usually pretty spacious (50 LCM) and doesn’t use as much chlorine as other pools (it uses UV light instead)
iPad Notebook export for A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
August 27, 2017Some quick quotes from
Citation (MLA): Levitin, Daniel J.. A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age. Penguin Publishing Group, 2016. Kindle file.
that I really liked
Each short quote is preceded by the words “Highlight” & indication of the location in the book.
PART ONE | EVALUATING NUMBERS
Highlight(pink) – FUN WITH AVERAGES > Page 18 · Location 278 But be careful drawing conclusions about individuals and groups based on averages. The pitfalls here are so common that they have names: the ecological fallacy and the exception fallacy. The ecological fallacy occurs when we make inferences about an individual based on aggregate data (such as a group mean), and the exception fallacy occurs when we make inferences about a group based on knowledge of a few exceptional individuals. For example, imagine two small towns, each with only one hundred people. Town A has ninety-nine people earning $ 80,000 a year, and one super-wealthy person who struck oil on her property, earning $ 5,000,000 a year. Town B has fifty people earning $ 100,000 a year and fifty people earning $ 140,000. The mean income of Town A is $ 129,200 and the mean income of Town B is $ 120,000. Although Town A has a higher mean income, in ninety-nine
Highlight(pink) – FUN WITH AVERAGES > Page 21 · Location 309 Here is a brain-twister: The average child usually doesn’t come from the average family. Why? Because of shifting baselines. (I’m Highlight(pink) – PROBABILITIES > Page 117 · Location 1399
The consequences of such confusion are hardly just theoretical: Many court cases have hinged on a misapplication of conditional
probabilities, confusing the direction of what is known. A forensics expert may compute, correctly, that the probability of the blood found at the crime scene matching the defendant’s blood type by chance is only 1 percent. This is not at all the same as saying that there is only a 1 percent chance the defendant is innocent. What? Intuition tricks us again. The forensics expert is telling us the probability of a blood match given that the defendant is innocent: P( blood match | innocence)
PART TWO | EVALUATING WORDS
Highlight(pink) – OVERLOOKED, UNDERVALUED ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATIONS > Page 161 · Location 1947
A companion to the cherry-picking bias is selective windowing. This occurs when the information you
PART THREE | EVALUATING THE WORLD
Highlight(pink) – BAYESIAN THINKING IN SCIENCE AND IN COURT > Page 221 · Location 2679
The problem of mistakenly thinking that P( Guilty | Evidence) = P( Evidence | Guilt) is so widespread it has been dubbed the prosecutor’s fallacy.
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