My daughter's pork belly ramen is the best I've ever had.

Modeling Public Opinion Over Time and Space: Trust in State Institutions in Europe, 1989-2019 by Kołczyńska et al. ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/article/...

Why is a bullshitter worse than a liar? Because he is not even wrong!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bull...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_eve...

Traveling salesmen are still out of luck, but the commercial movers finally caught a break with this breakthrough!

phys.org/news/2024-12...

Ahh, Indox zero.

Lisbon looks very nice this morning.

Running Markov Chain Monte Carlo on Modern Hardware and Software by Sountsov, Carroll, and Hoffman, showing some new performance benchmarks.
arxiv.org/abs/2411.04260

Roger Penrose convinced me to study some complex analysis, and this is from the book Visual Complex Analysis by Needham, which is a gem. (I don't know Penrose personally, but I tried reading The Road to Reality)

Meta-analysis with only one study? No problem.
stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/rese...

Causes of death globally, 2019. Source: Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/causes-of-de...