Posts Tagged ‘humor’

A Note of Reassurance from Your School District Regarding Our Updated Omicron Policies – McSweeney’s Inte rnet Tendency

January 5, 2022

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-note-of-reassurance-from-your-school-district-regarding-our-updated-omicron-policies

Christmas Cards – SNL – YouTube

December 25, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXgOxLJ-OKc

Duffel Blog : NSA Intercepted Children’s Letters To Santa

November 30, 2014

#NSA Intercepted Children’s Letters To Santa http://www.duffelblog.com/2013/12/nsa-letters-to-santa N Pole address is non-US & OK for snooping HT @peterwsinger @DuffelBlog

BoxPlotR: a web tool for generation of box plots

September 21, 2014

They published a paper on a web tool to generate box plots !! http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v11/n2/full/nmeth.2811.html QT:{{”
Despite the obvious advantages of the box plot for simultaneous representation of data set and statistical parameters, this method is not in common use, in part because few available software tools allow the facile generation of box plots. For example, the standard spreadsheet tool Excel is unable to generate box plots.

M.S. and J.W. conceived of the box plot tool
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Related:
http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/01/21/bioinformatics.btu038.abstract

Why we need a computer

June 12, 2014

http://beckerinfo.net/bioinformatics/systems-biology/

Westport tech writer’s wedding proposal goes viral – Connecticut Post

June 9, 2014

http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Westport-tech-writer-s-wedding-proposal-goes-viral-3810229.php

correlations – “stay away from bedsheets”

May 13, 2014

need adjusted p values after multiple hypothesis correction

Spurious Correlations
http://www.tylervigen.com

Twitter / cybertheorist: On a random note, this is …

February 14, 2013

https://twitter.com/cybertheorist/status/301935155843584000/photo/1

Why Rudolph’s nose is red: observational study

December 21, 2012

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23247980

Article: 11 Weirdly Spelled Words—And How They Got That Way

December 1, 2012

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/151416