Weekend in review

What Dr. Suess books are really about. 

The Friedman Unit.

Tips on how to make a small business seem much bigger.

Great quote:

…bolstering the living standards of old people is an economically inefficient undertaking that we sentimental human beings find ethically appealing...As a “business strategy” it’s ridiculous—on a par with preserving the natural beauty of the Grand Canyon or having the military pay health care costs of soldiers who are too injured to fight—but that’s because it’s not a business strategy.

Grab Bag

• Great article on using R for Kalman Filtering.

• Really cool video on the effects of placebo.  Cannot remember where I came across that one- which probably means AS.

• tumblr find of the day:

Around the interwebs

via Regina Spector, old TED talk featuring Sarah Jones.

A Technical Explanation of Technical Explanation, where we are reminded,

Since the beginning

Not one unusual thing

Has ever happened.

Around the interwebs

Great post by Ezra on how penicillin fooled us, and the ensuing fallout to public policy.

Discussion on what we say, and what we mean. In general, an excellent discussion on the use of knowledge in language.

R surpasses Matlab and SAS in popularity

I think that those R folks might be onto something.

Links of the day

Ten things every conservative should know about Reagan.

Via infostatics, very nice use of Flash. Wonder if HTML5 could handle something like this,

Via three toed sloth, nice article on writing R functions (pdf)