Journals should not corral shorter papers into sections like "Shorter Papers". Doing so sends a subtle (actually unsubtle) message that shorter papers are basically second-class citizens, somehow less good, or less important, or less so...
Journals should not corral shorter papers into sections like "Shorter Papers". Doing so sends a subtle (actually unsubtle) message that shorter papers are basically second-class citizens, somehow less good, or less important, or less so...
Writing a book is a sacrifice. It takes a lot of time, represents a lot of missed opportunities, and does not (directly) pay very well. If you do a good job it may pay back in good-will, but producing a serious book is a great challenge. Nina Zumel and I definitely troubled over possibilities for … Continue reading Did she know we were writing a book?
It's been a while since I did a piece on good writing, for students. In an old post I said "Listen to your words; push your prose toward poetry." That's perhaps a bit much -- you don't need to write poetry, but you do need to lis...
Gary Gorton has a fascinating new paper, "History and Economics of Safe Assets", which contains the quote of the week: "...almost all of human history can be written as the search for and the production of different forms of safe assets". No...
Maybe everyone already knows about the Oxford comma and the crazy stripper thing. I just learned about them. Anyway, here goes. Consider (1) "x, y and z" vs. (2) "x, y, and z". The difference is that (2) has an extra comma before "and". I always th...
We’ve just finished off a series of articles on some recent research results applying differential privacy to improve machine learning. Some of these results are pretty technical, so we thought it was worth working through concrete examples. And some of the original results are locked behind academic journal paywalls, so we’ve tried to touch on … Continue reading Our Differential Privacy Mini-series
As readers have surely noticed the Win-Vector LLC blog isn’t a stream of short notes, but instead a collection of long technical articles. It is the only way we can properly treat topics of consequence. What not everybody may have noticed is a number of these articles are serialized into series for deeper comprehension. The … Continue reading Some key Win-Vector serial data science articles
This question comes from a comment on another post: I’ve seen authors citing as many references as possible to try to please potential referees. Many of those references are low quality papers though. Any general guidance about a typical length for the reference section? It depends on the subject and style of the paper. I’ve […]
I spend much of my day sitting in front of a screen, coding or writing. To limit the strain on my eyes, I use a dark theme as much as possible. That is, I write with light colored text on a dark background. I don’t know why this is not the default in more software […]
This poem was written by David Goddard from the Monash University Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine. It is reproduced here with his permission. The poem won the inaugural Monash University poetry competition and will soon be published in an anthology of contemporary poetry. For those who like this sort of thing (as I do), there is a […]
