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Intel just fixed a nine year old bug it was warned about five years ago. Remote management software, meant to allow corporate IT to set up your system, would allow anybody on the internet unlimited access to your system.  Intel is a big company with over 10,000 technical staff.  They still couldn’t get it right. […]

Tell me what you want, what you really really want. The problem with traffic regulation is people don’t tell you what you want. What they want is 80 mph speed limits, legal cell phones, and no stop signs. We know this because we can look at what people do. Economists say it’s a “revealed preference.” […]

I wrote recently about choosing evidence to fit a conclusion rather than a conclusion to fit evidence. Christie Aschwanden at 538 wrote a good article on that backwards journey. She called the process “p-hacking,” derived from the term “p-value.” In traditional science published experimental results have to be statistically significant. Did the lab rats die […]