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Yesterday Nate Cohn wrote about The Big Changes Coming to the Times/Siena Poll, with more details in their poll of Maine. Say we want to estimate average Platner support in Maine’s likely electorate, E(Y). But we only have survey...
A bunch of things I’ve found on my digital strolls in the past month (which I added to my Tumblr) for your eyes / ears / brain to spend time on (as no longer active on Twitter or on LinkedIn much). READ “It offers a set of bold policy...
An idea popped into my head this afternoon: create postcards from the pictures I took on vacation. I know that it's possible to do this with professional printers (Staples, independant shops, Canva, VistaPrint, w/e) but I wanted to...
Montblanc Bram Stoker Purple, via Dromgoole’s. Sponsor support is very important to me here at The Pen Addict. My sidebar advertisers put their faith in me to deliver good value for them month in and month out, and I want to shine the...
I’m making it official: a new edition of Microscope is in the works. I’ve looked in my crystal ball, laid out my schedule, and set crowdfunding for October. If you’ve been following this blog, you know I’ve been working on improvements...
[A version of this story was previously published at MeisterArchive.com] By David J. Meister June 27, 2026 After 14 years of continual litigation, a federal judge has finally ordered the takeover of medical services in Arizona State...
This week I'm in Algarve, in the south of Portugal. I've been coding from the beach. I know. Very nerd. Part of me keeps judging it. What am I doing? Is this too much? Am I failing at resting properly? Why can't I just disconnect like a...
European Data Protection makes it illegal to transfer person identifiable data to outside the EU. Unless there is equivalence in data protection, or an agreement with guarantees and oversight deemed adequate. For the USA this is the...
When it’d get “too quiet” during the week I used to default to “oh no, what’d I miss? What’d I forget?! WHEN IS THE OTHER SHOE GONNA DROP!?” Then a wise friend suggested, “maybe it’s so quite because you remembered everything.”
A very interesting NY Times piece by Elda Cantú (archived): I have been speaking Spanish for over 40 years, and practically every day I learn a new word, an unfamiliar meaning or a new slang term. I grew up on the border between Mexico...
We revived The Session for a one-off event to celebrate the work of the late Martyn Cornell, asking people to write something in response to his final book Porter & Stout. We were encouraged in this by Alan ‘A Good Beer Blog’ McLeod...
A recent comment, on Retired Martin’s blog, about sitting next to someone on a plane, whose country is at war, reminded me of a polar opposite experience that occurred on our not so recent, cruise to Norway. Martin mentioned about being...
The solitary is the bearer of the future, of that which is not yet born, of the mystery which lies beyond the circle of lamplight or the edge of the known world. There are some who make raids into this unknown world of mystery and who...
This is a repost of one of my favorite essays, which I originally published back in 2022. It’s as relevant to AI as it was to the topics I was focusing on back then, as I explain in a new section at the end.)My topic for today: All...
Everyone has the same nightmare now, and it is a very boring one. You are at your desk. An email arrives. It is warm and grammatically perfect, which is how you know a machine wrote it, and it explains that your role has been...