• America Rejoins the Paris Agreement

    Trigger warning: Discussion of events and stereotypes. Some may find offensive. Read before it goes out of date Countries sit around a long table in quiet conversation. France, Germany and a couple of the other EU nations discuss the details of a carbon tax. Sweden ogles over what looks to be porn but is really…

  • Open Letter to College Board

    Application season is in full swing. While the rat race is bad enough, there are certain rent seeking entities that certainly make things exponentially worse. Here’s an open letter to one of the worst. Dear College Board, It’s been 5 years since I last used your services. I still remember the hours spent navigating the…

  • Should I keep Working?

    Should I keep Working?

    Some time ago, I took an Intermediate Microeconomics class. The name “Intermediate Micro” is somewhat deceiving. Turns out it’s less “economics” and more “multivariate calculus with a sprinkling of economics”. Every problem set featured a series of nasty optimization problems requiring 10+ line derivatives. The week before Thanksgiving, the professor assigned a particularly nasty one.…

  • R Studio

    R Studio

    January 2020 I enter R studio for the first time. For the uninitiated, R studio is one of many data interrogation centres. In these places, students, academic and professional torturers, know as data scientists, cut, coerce, mutilate and perform cruel tests on their suspects to force confessions.  I came into Data Science for the Social…