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No seriously, I felt the p-values, in my soul…

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

No seriously, I felt the p-values, in my soul…
…gamblers are convinced that they have “runs of luck”; we can take a perfectly cheerful heavy metal record, play it backwards, and hear hidden messages about satan. Our ability to spot patterns is what allows us to make sense of the world but sometimes, in our eagerness, [...]

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And the funkiest year ever was…

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

And the funkiest year ever was… - oh yes. Hip-hop plus geekery. I love it.
Because the Sample FAQ lists the year of the original songs that have been sampled by hip hop producers, we can construct a simple frequency count of the number of samples that used material from a given year.

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