So the conference was great. There isn’t much suspense to tell it now, but my flight was an hour late getting out on Friday from Baltimore, and since that’s exactly how much time I had to make my (airline-scheduled) connection in Memphis, I didn’t know if I was going to make it to Austin. The [...]
Archive for October 24th, 2009
Highlights from NASW in Austin
Posted in Uncategorized on 24 October 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Odds that I Will Freelance for “Book of Odds” are 1 in 1.
Posted in new article, tagged feature, math on 24 October 2009 | 2 Comments »
Over the summer, several of us were approached by a start-up Web company. They had spent years collecting statistics on the probabilities that various things will happen to a person during their lifetime — stuff like getting struck by lightning, being diagnosed with breast cancer, or getting eaten by a bear (okay, I made that [...]
