Monthly Archives: February 2009

Survivorship Bias and Its Cousins in Social Networking

I was reading somewhere about survivorship bias recently. It strikes me when I think about it, how often it is out there, in the articles you read, the statistics you view and in any written material that you rely on for information. The easiest way to avoid it would be to have doubt in anything [...]

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The Latest New Year Resolutions Ever

Recently I’ve been uneasy about the way I behave. I considered myself a person who loves to learn new things and has deep interest in gaining new skills. While I was still studying in AUBG, this was true and I spent the time to make sure I lived up to these principles. For some reason, [...]

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What type of person writes this blog?

I Recently came across Typealyzer. Decided to try it on my own blog and here are the results: I was expecting this and don’t know if it is good or bad – you tell me

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Rants About Writing and Starbucks

Reading Rob Conery’s post today, I started thinking about how often I read blogs of people having no ideas of their own, but instead writing and restating things they’ve enjoyed reading somewhere else. Now the question is – is this ok? To me it is. After all, if we waited for everyone to have his [...]

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