Serf Error Codes
PageSpeed uses serf to fetch things over http. Sometimes serf gives errors back to PageSpeed that get reported in error messages: Serf status 120171(APR does not understand this error code) The serf...
View ArticleFestival Stats 2015
I just finished updating my list of dance weekends and bands for 2015. Which means I can now compile updated numbers on how many weekends and festivals people are playing: times bookedband16Great Bear...
View ArticleHistorical Weekend Stats
I found some pages where dance weekends list the bands and callers they've booked over the years: Austin, Dallas, and HoustonAtlantaOberlinCincinnati, supplied via emailTampa, supplied via emailBACDS...
View ArticleBooking Intervals
Yesterday I wasn't sure what to do with all my stats about who played what weekends when over the last few years, but here's a question we can answer now: how long do weekends wait before bringing...
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Repeat Wins By Sport
I was waiting in the airport security line at Logan, and they have a big row of banners for Boston's championships in various sports. Kind of like this: What stood out to me, seeing this, is (a) it...
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Careers Bankruptcy
One of the rules in the game "Careers": This rule breaks the game. Two players make an agreement: one player will repeatedly give all their money to the other and then declare bankruptcy. After...
View ArticleEA Global Videos
Videos from the EA Global conference in Mountain View this summer are out! [1] Here's all the talks with videos, in the order that they were presented on the conference program: li{margin-bottom:...
View ArticleThoughtful Non-consumption
Note: read to the end. A: You really should give up hot showers. That hot water means wasted energy, fossil fuels warming the planet, damaging ecosystems and displacing people. B: But I like my warm...
View ArticleContra Caller Gender
Ruthie posted recently about gender in contra dance playing and calling, finding: Women called 47% of dances in my sample, and were about a third of musicians (weighted by gigs). This is compared to a...
View ArticleNegative News
"Wheat prices fell for a fifth straight year today. We're here with a fourth generation farmer, trying to understand how a race to the bottom makes it harder and harder for small farmers to make ends...
View ArticleProbabilistic Coke Pricing
In 1950 Coke had a problem. They had been selling bottles for 5¢ but inflation was making this impractical. They wanted to raise prices, but vending machine technology was an issue. Over 25% of their...
View ArticleGiving vs Doing
The focus of effective altruism has been shifting from giving to doing. When EA started out it was mostly about encouraging people to give more and give effectively. The initial organizations,...
View ArticleDeclining dances
At a contra dance you'll hear both: If you say no then it's rude to dance with someone else instead.You don't have to dance with anyone you don't want to. What's going on? Why is there contradictory...
View ArticleSinner Man: Pandemic
Last night I played for a secular solstice (slides, chords). It was patterned after the celebrations Ray Arnold has been organizing in New York, though on a smaller scale. We were in the MIT Chapel,...
View ArticleMandatory Islam Courses?
In 2011 we rented the apartment at 63 Pinckney St #3 in Somerville from a landlord who thought we were witches harassing her with chemicals and radiation: You need to stop letting the draft in when...
View ArticleBIDA Caller Booking History
I just collected some numbers on who's called at BIDA over the years: Sue Rosen9Adina Gordon8Lisa Greenleaf8Linda Leslie7Nils Fredland7Dave Eisenstadter6Mary Wesley6Chris Weiler5Luke Donforth5Daniel...
View ArticleDetecting Tanks
There's a story that's passed around to illustrate the ways machine learning can pick up on features in your dataset that you didn't expect, and probably gained the most exposure through Yudkowsky...
View ArticleInterstate 99
There's a system to the naming of Interstate highways: Even numbered ones run east-west.Odd numbered ones run north-south.Lower numbered ones are south/west of higher numbered ones.Primary routes are...
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The Old Woman and the Tiger
Growing up my grandmother would tell stories about growing up in (Taigu), in north China. Some of the stories were about life there, others were folk tales they'd learned. One of the ones she would...
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Tempo Meter
How's our tempo? It looks like the dancers are rushing a bit, maybe? Is this too fast, or does it just feel fast? Over years of playing for dances I've built up a sense of how fast the music should...
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