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Probably Overthinking It is available to predorder now. You can get a 30% discount if you order from the publisher and use the code UCPNEW. You can also…
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Life in a Lognormal World
At PyData Global 2023 I will present a talk, “Extremes, outliers, and GOATs: On life in a lognormal world”. The schedule has not been posted yet, but…
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We Have a Book!
My copy of Probably Overthinking It has arrived! If you want a copy for yourself, you can get a 30% discount if you order from the publisher and use the…
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Why are you so slow?
Recently a shoe store in France ran a promotion called "Rob It to Get It", which invited customers to try to steal something by grabbing it and running…
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The World Population Singularity
One of the exercises in Modeling and Simulation in Python invites readers to download estimates of world population from 10,000 BCE to the present, and…
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Another step toward a two-hour marathon
This is an update to an analysis I run each time the marathon world record is broken. If you like this sort of thing, you will like my forthcoming book…
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How Does World Population Grow?
Recently I posed this question on Twitter: "Since 1960, has world population grown exponentially, quadratically, linearly, or logarithmically?" Here are…
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