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Online college classes are win-win situation

22 May 2012

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Life’s columns

22 May 2012

Reflecting on the 15 years of writing “Pinoy Kasi,� I’ve come to realize how much a part of my life the column has become, from thinking of topics to write about, writing up the columns, reading and sometimes responding to letters from readers.

How Readable Are Bill Simmons, Jason Whitlock, Rick Reilly, And Other Sportswriters? Science Investigates [Regressing]

22 May 2012

# regressing The last time we played around with sportswriter analytics, we wondered if we could algorithmically determine a column's author based on his favorite words. ( We could! ) For a followup, I decided to look at the readability of different writers. Reading level is a nebulous concept and hard to define precisely, but we have a statistical measure known as the Flesch-Kincaid readability ...