Today La Serpiente demanded to wear her raincoat to school, a somewhat quixotic choice, given it’s designed for the cold rains of England, not the tropics. Still, by careful use of air conditioned spaces we[…]
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Yet more sleep deprivation
I couldn’t sleep last night, tossing and turning until 1am, and then woken by a crying child at 2, or at 5:30, or I don’t know quite when. I just remember waking up on Destroyer’s[…]
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Brain fade
I slept well this evening. Mainly because I fell asleep next to La Serpiente at 8:20 and didn’t wake up for an hour. I crawled groggily from her room just as my wife exited Destroyer’s[…]
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Not Swimming Lesson #1
Tonight I didn’t go swimming, and I was still so tired that I fell asleep on Destroyer’s bed before she did, which suggests that maybe it’s not swimming that knackers me out, it’s Thursdays. That’s[…]
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Early night
La Serpiente was very tired when I got home tonight, and howled with unhappiness when I told her I would be away on a work trip. “No, you can’t go on holiday” she wailed at[…]
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Not drinking gin
After work I ran to the National Stadium, but somehow took a wrong turning and went out of my way by most of a mile, which wouldn’t be so odd if I hadn’t been running[…]
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Game of Thrones Season 2
Tonight we finished watching the second season of Game of Thrones. The penultimate episode was almost comic in the number of decapitations, people getting masonry dropped on their head or their legs being chopped off[…]
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Tennis
This morning, still crapulent from last night’s gin and stinking mightily, I took a taxi over to a friend’s condo in the East Coast. We were going to have a game of tennis; he’d played[…]
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Quiet night in
I was a ruin today, sleeping in until 9, then still exhausted and needing to nap in the afternoon. But come nightfall, when the kids were asleep and friends came round to visit, and we[…]
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Bayesians and frequentists
Yesterday I had a training session on Bayesian vs frequentist models of probability, and one of the analogies they gave was that everyone thinks they’re a frequentist but behaves like a Bayesian. One example is[…]
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