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Tumbling dice
ideas

Does the mind play dice?

Randomness is an awkward concept. Most people have some intuitive idea of what it is supposed to mean, but it’s too intangible for us to feel comfortable with. Worse, randomness is often conflated with arbitrariness, a distasteful and unsettling quality which we usually strive to avoid. Scientists are not
Mar 18, 2014 4 min read
Open Data stickers
science

Thoughts on Open Data

In the last few days, the Public Library of Science (PLoS) has announced [http://blogs.plos.org/everyone/2014/02/24/plos-new-data-policy-public-access-data/] that they will shortly require every article published in one of their journals to be accompanied by a “data availability statement”, stating how the raw data underlying the
Mar 5, 2014 3 min read
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