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March 30, 2024
Layla Parast writes:
A few years ago, my dad had a heart attack. (He continues to claim it was just a “discomfort.”) When he was in the emergency room, his doctor told him he needed heart surgery right away. My dad had never had a major surgery and had no…
Takis Konstantopoulos, University of Liverpool, is joined by George Kesidis, Pennsylvania State University, for the first column in a series on the impact of AI on academia. They write:
In a previous Takis Tackles article ([4] in the December 2021 issue) one of us [TK] claimed…
Xiao-Li Meng writes:
Here is a moral test (especially for statisticians). Which of the following acronyms baffles you the most: ANOVA, ADSN, ASC, ANU, ABS, or AITA?
Regardless of your answer (or questioning—a moral test??), the eight A’s in the above acronyms will forever remind me of my recent eight-day…
Anirban DasGupta says, “We are going to continue with our contest model introduced in the previous puzzle. Each correct answer receives 3 points, each incorrect answer receives -2 points, and each item left unanswered receives -1 point. The top three scorers will be recognized. You can answer just one of …
Alan Geoffrey Hawkes died on 9 November 2023. He was Emeritus Professor at the Hawkes Centre for Empirical Finance at the School of Management of Swansea University in Wales.
Swansea University has a webpage with a short, but comprehensive, biography: https://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/a.g.hawkes/. There we learn that he joined Swansea in…