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The New York Times answers its own question!
‘The Interview’ Brings In $15 Million on Web
LOS ANGELES — “The Interview” generated roughly $15 million in online sales and rentals during its first four days of availability, Sony Pictures said on Sunday.
Sony did not say how much of that total represented $6 digital rentals versus $15 sales. The studio said there were about two million transactions over all.
So the answer to the 2012 opinion piece
Is Algebra Necessary? is YES!
From Dan Meyer,
Fox News on the Antares rocket failure
Who to praise? Who to blame?
Check the numbers
U.S. Leads the World…
The Books Everyone Starts and No One Finishes,…
Political Seismology
Eric Cantor’s Loss Was Like an Earthquake
Everybody is talking how it was big and far-reaching surprise, but here Nate Silver has something more subtle in mind: The statistics of Republican primary results look a lot like those of earthquakes, and he presents the graphs to show it. Major primary upsets, like serious earthquakes, are rare but they do happen. Furthermore, they are fundamentally random and unpredictable.
Politics, Pundits, and Probabilty
Nate Silver wrote this before the fall of Eric Cantor: The Political Media Still Fall for the Hot-Hand Fallacy.
He referred to it afterwards:
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 