Author: pyrrho

Benford’s Law.  Here it is described at Wolfram’s Mathworld… a great resource on mathematical concepts:  Benford’s Law. In short, it turns out there is an unintuitive distribution of digits in...

Sorry, this is probably not going to be a good idea for a diary. But twice I came here to read a diary that I hear Armando posted here, or actually, more to read the comments which have been referred to.  I’m burnt...

Honestly, politics 101: you make a coalition of compatible interests. You forge bonds of understanding for the concerns of others.  I mean, that’s in ANY political alliance, but in a progressive alliance, especially...

For me the real struggle is between: those that want to let other people do their own thing, and people that want to control other people. That is the basic conflict for me.   I know that there are other more important...

Title says it all.  I listened to another 15 minutes of poison from El Idiot Supreme today and was surprised to hear him reading from DailyKos. He was reading a piece from the woman that will be testifying before Congress,...