OddThinking

A short diatribe on information presentation

Why I would never call Landmark Education a cult.

A lecturer in statistics once explained to me that when you had a large sample of measurements, it is sometimes necessary to identify the “outliers”; values which are either very suspicious (if there is a risk of experimental error) or very interesting because they are so far outside of the normal range of values. There’s […]

The Sydney Morning Herald has a regular column, Big Questions, where they invite readers to submit questions to be published, and other readers to submit answers.

What sort of nagging questions do their readers want – nay, need – to get answered?

It’s the early eighties and my brother and I have a toy train-set. We want to compete to race trains, but we only have one locomotive on an oval track. The rules for Spaghetti Express racing are born from this necessity.

On two classic computer games from times gone by: Kennedy Approach and Overlord.