Apple Software Update error

I’ve seen a regular Apple Software Update error – essentially an unknown failure trying to install a new version of iTunes. I finally worked out that this was because I hadn’t opened iTunes between the new install (7.6 in this case) and the previous...

Making human-human games more interesting

I hadn´t really got what FischerRandom was about, but I like the idea of making human-human interactions more interesting (by being more challenging). I wonder if the ability to memorise the big book of standard openings is so much of an advantage that you would...

Statistics and screening

Two good bad sciences: Don´t believe every statement you read: "Doctors say no to abortions in their surgeries" in this case. I bought the statistics book. How to present the real issues with screening: mammograms prevent 2 deaths in 1000 women aged...

Decision trees

An option for my decision tree project: how government solves organisational problems and how the private sector solves the same sort of problems.