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Immigration and High-Skill Employment in the US

Immigration and High-Skill Employment in the US

I had been wanting to look into this subject, and lo, I find that someone else has already done it. Guestworkers in the High-Skill U.S. Labor Market. I've long been dubious that we don't have enough native-born STEM graduates in the US. My reasoning is

Patents vs Copyright

Patents vs Copyright

My friend Tom sends along a Google Nwords graph showing the rise of copyright relative to patent in Google's database of books. Patent vs Copyright This is consistent with the idea that copyright is looming larger and larger in our minds, as the term of copyright keeps creeping

Machine Learning, Big Data, Deep Learning, Data Mining, Statistics, Decision & Risk Analysis, Probability, Fuzzy Logic FAQ

William Briggs, one of my favorite statisticians, has a big post up answering everything you didn't want to know about probability and related computer science fields: Machine Learning, Big Data, Deep Learning, Data Mining, Statistics, Decision & Risk Analysis, Probability, Fuzzy Logic FAQ What’s the difference between

Well put, Steven

This book review is over 3 years old at this point, but it is worth re-reading: Steven Pinker on What the Dog Saw in the NY Times. Have you ever wondered why there are so many kinds of mustard but only one kind of ketchup? Or what Cézanne did before

Right on Cue

Right on Cue

Nature has an article on the attempt to fit cyclical models to history. CliologyI was about to say that interest in this subject waxes and wanes, but that is going too far. We do tend to forget the real attraction to Marxism in the early twentieth century was its promise

Cycles: The Science of Prediction

[I discovered I accidentally deleted this book review during site maintenance. I reposted it and redirected the old URL to this page.] By Edward R. Dewey and Edwin F. Dakin Henry Holt and Company 1949 307 Pages; US$42.95 Cycles is a book from the youth of modern statistics.

Historical Trend in the Number of Breweries in the US

Historical Trend in the Number of Breweries in the US

I have heard it said many times that Prohibition killed the brewing industry in the United States, but from my friends at Mother Road Brewery I get a link to a nice graph from the Brewers Association showing the number of breweries in the United States since 1887. [big version]