well, that is, if “war for corbotia” doesn’t come out – or my eighth grade book – or any of my other classes – i’ve put together the last three years of the blog in pdf form – so it’s technically an e-book right now – all six years are like 700 pages – more depending on the font and page size – anyway, so be careful what you write, i guess… 🙂

“the signal and noise” by silver – book on making predictions – and why we’re so bad at it – even with all the data in the world we have now – like, take the current baseball season – basically nothing like what early stat people said – and why? b/c we tend to put too much confidence in data that favors things we like – things that we think explain our world – needless to say, the book was good about making me more aware of how i can slant data to support things – and, moreover, how others do that (it’s really bad in education data)

“going long” – christmas is officially over – i bought three running books from my gift cards at christmas – and so i got and read one of my three this week – which i guess means that christmas will officially be over when i finish all three – maybe summer then – i like to save my running books for hard times – anyway, this book was a collection of runner’s world’s best from the last 30 years – although, most of the essays were from the last few years – i guess my impression was sadness – not that all the stories were sad – but i’d neglected to think much lately about a runner that died at the ’07 trials – and i felt awful about taking life for granted – again

happy ARMT week

maf