Celebrity deaths will be worse in 2017 This is in response to the current trend going round of saying 2016 was a terrible year, particularly with regards to celebrity deaths. There are a few images floating around with captions like
Essays New Years Resolutions Despite it being seen as a silly exercise by some, I like to make a few new years resolutions each year. I do it because I think setting a few goals to try
Essays On the Prisoners Dilemma (Part One) I. The Prisoner's Dilemma is something that you've almost certainly already read about if you have the slightest interest in psychology or economics. When I looked at the half
Reviews Book Review: Warren Buffett's Ground Rules Another book [http://stochastication.com/2016/05/28/book-review-the-intelligent-investor-benjamin-graham-and-jason-zweig/] in the 'how to invest' genre, probably the last I'll read for a while. After a few, it's
Essays Just Check Yourself (or, being wrong less) I. With all the post election hubbub, fake news [https://stratechery.com/2016/fake-news/] is getting a bit of discussion. There are claims going around that the outcome of the election is a
Essays Automation, The Unnecessariat, And The Rise Of Trump I can’t not write about the election and the shocking outcome - four years of Trump. A lot of people are discussing how this could have happened, and what this means. This
Essays A Moral Ladder I was having a conversation this morning in which a friend who happens to enjoy the occasional cannabis use was expressing frustration that he had to hide it from his family. His parents
Essays The Predator (Shopping) Instinct Ever stop to wonder why we, the human race, like shopping so much? It doesn't seem to match with any behaviour or instinct we've evolved over the last millennia.
Reviews Book Review: Influence - Robert Cialdini "Influence" shows up on many reading lists, particularly in the business world, and it's been on mine for a while, if only to see what the fuss was all
Essays How to get HD's After last weeks article, I wanted to try to lay out how I go about studying. I'm a HD student, most of the time, so even if my method isn'
Essays Realistically raising your WAM I'm writing this because it's getting towards the end of semester and it's that time when a lot of my friends mention that they're trying
projects Overmatcher - Making an Overwatch web widget in a weekend Just a short post this week showcasing a project I put together recently. I tend to categorise my hobbies into either "productive," or "unproductive," and try to balance my
travel Japanese Ingenuity: How did we not think of these? This is the last of four posts about my recent trip to Japan. Previously, Kyoto, Osaka, and Nara [http://stochastication.com/2016/09/02/kansai-kyoto-and-osaka/]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are already plenty of articles out
Reviews Book Review: The Better Angels Of Our Nature - Steven Pinker 'The Better Angels of Our Nature' is a hefty tome (~850 pages), but after reading it I can see why Pinker devoted so much space to supporting his thesis. The premise
projects Predicting the FIFA 2014 Final Winner with Logistic Regression Predicting a Winner I was given an assignment for my computational statistics course that posed an interesting challenge: "Using only data that is freely available on the internet, could you have predicted
travel Kyoto, Osaka, Nara: Historical Capitals of Japan This is the third of four posts about my recent trip to Japan. Previously, The Food of Japan [http://stochastication.com/2016/08/05/the-food-of-japan/] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kyoto was a city steeped in quiet
Reviews Book Review - Chasing The Scream: The First And Last Days Of The War On Drugs - Johann Hari Chasing the Scream tells the story of the origin, history and future of the war on drugs. Hari travels through 9 countries interviewing a wide range of people from all walks of life
travel The Food of Japan This is the second of four posts about my recent trip to Japan. Previously, we met Japanese Buddha in Tokyo [http://stochastication.com/2016/07/03/meeting-the-japanese-buddha-in-tokyo/] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I love food, so I
travel Meeting the Japanese Buddha in Tokyo This is the first of four posts about my recent trip to Japan. Table of Contents 1. Tokyo City 2. Harajuku and Takeshita Dori 3. Akihabara and Super Potato 4. Mori Tower and
Reviews No Pinocchio Effect - A Book Review of 'What Every BODY Is Saying' (Joe Navarro) Book Review: What Every BODY Is Saying (Joe Navarro) I went into this book expecting a fluffy, nonsense business book, partially from the ridiculous pun in the title and partially from past experience.
Essays Inverse Archaeology: Sending a message to the future "This place is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Nothing valued is here. What is here is dangerous and repulsive to us. This place is a
Reviews Book Review: The Intelligent Investor, Benjamin Graham and Jason Zweig I was recommended this book by a friend of a friend in finance who said it was a good place to start if I wanted to learn about investing. I thought it was
Reviews Book Review: Theory of Fun, Raph Koster I recently got interested in making computer games, and spent a couple of weekends doing unity tutorials and messing around. I have a tendency with any new subject I get interested in to
travel Palo Alto and SF The second week of my time in America was spent in San Francisco, or at least the Bay area. I was staying and working in Palo Alto most of the week, a city
travel Sleepy in Seattle I got to head over to the US for work recently for two weeks, on in Seattle and one in San Francisco. First time I'd been over there and I found
