March 26, 2010

Tufte vs Kittens

And every time I exceed my column width, I get the urge to tinker with my stylesheet.

March 25, 2010

Models

This is true:

…says that models have made predictions that were successfully compared to observations. Except that this is not enough for the models to be reliable. For them to be reliable, it would have to be the case that the models have produced no predictions that were inconsistent with the observations – because one wrong prediction is enough to falsify a model

Regardless of context.

March 24, 2010

gmail trick

in the search box, type


in:inbox is:unread

And you’ll get just your unread emails in your inbox. Since I keep my unread emails at zero as a general rule, this helps me a lot

You can also bookmark the resulting url and use it as your main gmail link