I can't believe it's not content!Yet another blog, with a focus on economics and political science.Suggestions for the ISOIEC C committee- October 30, 2007 In which I open a sentence with the phrase Because you can send an anonymous inline struct whose values are set via designated initializers...'. If that doesn't make sense to you, don't even bother clicking through. If it does, well, don't just sit there in suspense.... Oh, and if you feel like you know C but that still doesn't make sense, then you're eight years behind; have a look at what's new in C99---notably numbers 16 and 17 in that list.http://fluff.info/blog/arch/00000225.htm Definition of a crackpot- October 20, 2007 Actual dialog I had the other day (that did not inspire this essay, which I wrote about four months ago): Me: I'm the author of a textbook on statistical computing, forthcoming from well-regarded academic press, and I have a nifty idea for aggregating information from some genetic tests that I wanna run by you. Him: But you don't know anything about the chemistry of allele calling mechanisms, so how can your statistics possibly workhttp://fluff.info/blog/arch/00000224.htm Why your drugs are not vegetarian- October 14, 2007 Yes, I do believe there should be some medical exemption, but no, I have no idea of where I would draw the line. But it's not anything sold in pill form'.http://fluff.info/blog/arch/00000223.htm |