Neato paper for stats workshop

Latent Variable Graphical Model Selection via Convex Optimization

Which type of programmer are you?

A great blog post recommended by Paul Litvak:

http://googletesting.blogspot.com/2010/07/code-coverage-goal-80-and-no-less.html

Behavioral economics not a panacea

George being honest about the importance of BE.

Bayesian Statistics and Philosophy of Science

I've been waiting for this one for a while:
Gelman and Shalizi: Bayesian Statistics and Philosophy of Science

Memory and Walking

Memory span and walking:
Memory and Walking

Homage to Litvak

In my department, instead of doing research, we spend most of our time wooing each other with song. From Russ to Paul:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwap79uy1G8

PhD student
PhD student (PhD student)
Dear Advisor, will you read my thesis?
It took years to write, even under your aegis.
It's based on research in decision science
And I need a job, so I want to be a Doctor of Philosophy,
Doctor of Philosophy.

It's an ample sample of buffet-goers
And manipulations on loaded dice throwers.
They fall victim to the sunk cost effect,
It's five years now, but I want to be a Doctor of Philosophy,
Doctor of Philosophy.

PhD student (PhD student)

It's a thousand references, give or take a few,
I'll be citing more in a week or two.
I can provide an abstract if you wish to inspect,
I can change it round and I want to be a Doctor of Philosophy,
Doctor of Philosophy.

If you really like it we can publish soon,
we could schedule my defense for this coming June.
Then submit a chapter to Management Science.
Hey, I need a break and I want to be a Doctor of Philosophy,
Doctor of Philosophy.

PhD student (PhD student)

PhD student - PhD student
PhD student - PhD student

Litvakian Gold

My friend Paul Litvak likes to write songs about people. Today I was fortunate enough to be the recipient of one:

"he was a fast machine / he kept his data clean / hes the best researcher i've ever seen / he had no guise / he told no lies / knockin me out with his effect size / discovers more than his share / never in err / i had some ideas, but already hes there

cause the lab was shaking / findings' no faking / my mind was aching / and data was raking because you -- got the data all night long / yeah you got data all night long"

Sheer brilliance. And it's all true too!