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Meep and Media: Podcasts and Videos - Sumo, Fraud, and Math, oh my!  

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As noted in my post on Saturday, I’m on the road, so I’m compiling a few bits while I’m away.

Podcasts: Sumo and Fraud

I started doing an audio podcast called STUMP – Death and Taxes (and yes, I’m using the old plainchant Dies Irae as my intro/outro on...

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Math Stupidity: Comparing Pizzas and What's Important  

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There is certain kind of clickbait that can catch me, and some math-related stupidity can.

So, I saw the following via Powerline: Putting the Pi in pies: Twitter user stuns the internet with math that proves one 18-inch pizza has more in it than TWO 12-inch...

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Breaking the 12 Days of Christmas Cost Scandal Wide Open!  

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…..or not.

As per yesterday’s post, the PNC Christmas Price Index really counts up the cost of all the presents on the 12th day of Christmas and not the cost of the entire song.

Having found the official site of the PNC Christmas Price Index, I...

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Sunday Ephemera: Some Taxes, Some Math, and CHRISTMAS!!!!  

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I may or may not be putting up posts for the rest of the year… we’ll see.

For those who are interested in how Stu is doing, here is the most recent post. (He is the STU part of STUMP. Obviously, that leaves me the MP part… as...

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Geeking Out: Testing Kentucky ERS to Death  

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I check out how Kentucky ERS runs out of money, and it's about as bad as Chicago MEABF.

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Friday Trumpery: DEY TOOK OUR ACTUARIAL JERRRRRBS  

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Yes, I’m being a bit silly.

So one of the big issues from the Trump admin is immigration, especially with regards to the DEY TOOK ERR JERRRRRRRBS aspect.

For the longest time, people assumed these jobs being taken were more of the nasty “jobs Americans won’t do”,...

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Calpers: What Exactly is an "Average" Pension?  

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I geek out investigating a misleading statistic about average Calpers pensions.

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Lazy Sunday: Elections, Math Thoughts, and Pension Ads Invade my Apps  

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I go over some math videos I did 6-8 years ago, think about "fair" elections, and get taken aback by a surprise ad in my new logic game app.

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On Intellectual Humility: Post-Mortem of the Polls and Models  

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Last time I looked at predictions, I was taunting losers, and congratulating winners. The loser list was long, but the winners were the LATimes poll and two professors with non-poll-based models.

I can explain my own thoughts re: predicting the election. Obviously, I didn’t say anything at this...

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Ballot Access vs. Debate Access: A Look at the Numbers  

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There has been some made over Trump possibly not being on the Minnesota ballot:

Will Minnesotans vote for Donald Trump in November? Perhaps … if they can find him on the ballot. At least as of this morning, Trump’s name does not appear as one of the confirmed ballot choices...

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