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DW Budd
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And Then There Were None
Over the nearly 10 years I've posted comments (more off than on), I have not spent a lot of time talking about the job that I do; this is in part by design and in part because making mathematical models is not really terribly interesting to most people.  No...

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Everything IS OK Until it Isn't
Yesterday, the 20th of October was the Great California Shakeout ; it's an annual event in which people living here in California go through a series of events designed to remind us that we are living in an area where earthquakes - damaging earthquakes - ha...

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Cloudy With a Chance of Smug
One of the benefits for people who enjoy information sharing of the internet is that there is a multitude of fora where one can engage like-minded (and more importantly, people of differing views) individuals on various topics. My personal favourite is Quor...

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Ralph, I Was...Not Exactly Right
Yesterday, I hustled out of my office and got into the car a bit earlier than usual. The traffic on the Bayshore Freeway conspired to make me 15 minutes late anyways, but I still was able to catch most of the action. Not the Monday Night Football game (I fi...

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The Tipping Point
When I was a kid, my parents had a novelty toy - a plastic bird that appeared to "drink" water from a glass set before it. The bird would start upright, then gradually begin to tip, tip, tip, until it finally, fitfully, bent down, dipped its beak in the gla...

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Last Week the Bird Tipped
There He Goes Last week, as anyone who has not been watching "another channel" (Another channel?!? It was on all of the channels) knows, the United States held general elections, and the voters shocked, I suspect, even themselves in electing Donald Trump as...

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What Is in YOUR Wallet
Another quick essay stolen from myself over at Quora (I highly  recommend the site) Today, I received a question asking if I "believe that (I) pay more taxes than Donald Trump?" The explicit subtext to the question, presuming a "yes" answer, was "Does that ...

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Because Numbers Matter
Trigger warning (with no irony intended): I am going to be trying to make some points based on numbers. Some of the numbers might be considered controversial, the consequences of those numbers may make some unconformtable, and the conclusions may even be of...

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When I Was a Lad...
I was once like you are now. And I know, that it's not easy to be calm, when you find something's going on.  But take your time. Think alot. Why, think of everything you've got. For you will still be here tomorrow.  But your dreams may not. Summer is turnin...

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A Century of Roald Dahl
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”   Today, 13 Septemer 2016, would have been author Roald D...
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