OddThinking

Report generation involves a conflict of interest, leading to proliferation.

Here is a software analysis anti-pattern I have seen many times in my career. It is popping up in my current project, and I am trying to work out how to subvert it early.

I predict no end to the End-Of-The-World references.

I ran a Monte Carlo simulation to test whether occasional attendees have a rosier view of attendance levels than the regulars.

I have been listening to organisations demanding that we defend our human right to die with dignity.

I find myself unable to support them.

Realising I had been procrastinating about booking some flights and accommodation, today I went to a travel agent and got it done.

A travel agent. Bricks and mortar.

Odd.

I ask my friends to choose between two items with equal expected value, and no reason to prefer one than the other, and they can’t decide.

I put it to you that the fact that you cannot simple questions about pizza sizes strongly indicates that self-regulation of the Italian meal industry has failed us, and it is time for the government to impose its own standards.

Julian explains why is is a grumpy curmudgeon who hates water-pistols and other forms of fun.

The remarkable mathematical property a Golden Rectangle has is that its long side divided by its shortest side is exactly equal to the ratio of the number of bullshit claims about the Golden Rectangles compared to truthful ones.