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    <title>Nature Network - silliness</title>
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      <title>I guess brain surgeons are just dumb</title>
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        <![CDATA[Bob O'Hara - "Thomas Mailund":http://www.mailund.dk/ got upset about the hoops he had to go through to get a manuscript from a company. The company, being Corporate and Evil, "bought him off":http://www.mailund.dk/index.php/2008/07/24/new-rocket-science-logo/ with a logo, which some here might appreciate:]]>
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      <title>Are We All So Genteel?</title>
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        <![CDATA[Bob O'Hara - This is all very surprising - nobody from nature network seems to be "an elitist bastard":http://elitistbastardscarnival.blogspot.com/2008/06/carnival-of-elitist-bastards-2.html. They even have a special badge for Henry: !http://cafephilos.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/richard-dawkins-carnival-of-the-elitist-bastards-eggheads-unite.jpg!:http://cafephilos.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/introducing-the-carnival-of-elitist-bastards/ My excuse for not joining in is I'm just a pleb with pretensions. The Beast,]]>
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      <title>Random Pickings</title>
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        <![CDATA[Bob O'Hara - Just a few things, as it's Friday and I have The Beast sat on me.]]>
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      <title>I can guess where I can stick this</title>
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        <![CDATA[Bob O'Hara - Yesterday I found a long tube in my departmental pigeonhole. This was something of a surprise. Luckily it all became clear. The tube contained a poster, and this certificate: !http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3189/2613437138_d8dbcfda96_m.jpg!:http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3189/2613437138_d8dbcfda96_b.jpg]]>
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      <title>Outdone by Mis-prints</title>
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        <![CDATA[Bob O'Hara - In 1972, Prof. Sir. David R. Cox F.R.S. and statistical deity published one of the all-time great papers[1], where he introduced a neat idea into survival analysis which is now called the Cox Proportional Hazards model. Because survival analyses are]]>
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      <title>How the World Works, Part 357</title>
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        <![CDATA[Bob O'Hara - Now this is fun for a Friday evening[1]. Apparently the good (and possibly not so good) people of Washington D.C. have discovered that the quickest way to manage the commute near the airport there is to "buy a cup of]]>
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      <title>Exploring Banditry</title>
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        <![CDATA[Bob O'Hara - This morning I got the usual update from "arXiv":http://arxiv.org/ (that's a chi, not an X, folks!) with the list of newly uploaded manuscripts. Including this one: h2. "Bandit Exploration":http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2655 How could you not be interested?]]>
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      <title>On Purity</title>
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        <![CDATA[Bob O'Hara - Just because I'm in a maths and stats department !http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/purity.png!:http://www.xkcd.com/435 Of course, statistics is a part of all of these subjects, so we get to choose how pure we want to be. Oh, I should also point out that our]]>
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      <title>Reviewing: the Situation</title>
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        <![CDATA[Bob O'Hara - One of the better books about statistics is Abelson's "Statistics as Principled Argument":"http://books.google.fi/books?hl=en&id=YRMnGB4OwiUC&dq=Abelson+statistics&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=ZpBmCCMLCF&sig=L3W5LUkLUFw5uq6f1vMdSu-m3wc". Amongst the many words of wisdom, he gives us this useful dictum: h3. Chance is Lumpy]]>
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      <title>A Meeting Report</title>
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        <![CDATA[Bob O'Hara - I've been sat in a project meeting for a Finnish "Centre of Excellence":http://www.coe.fi/ that I lurk in. We have heard that swallows are more stressed when in Africa than in Finland (presumably because in Africa they are constantly being asked]]>
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