Brain Damage 12 Oct 2010 | 06:39 pm

Are winning poker players brain damaged? From Cheap Talk Each brain-damaged person got a wad of play money, and instructions to gamble on 20 rounds of coin tossing (heads-you-win/tails-you-lose, wit...

A course in multi level models 18 Jun 2010 | 03:32 pm

I don't know much about multilevel modeling but I tend to think about opponent modeling in a non-hierarchical multilevel way. Opponents are multi-dimensional, tight, aggressive, tricky, weak, etc. He...

Twitter 21 Mar 2010 | 10:44 am

I broke down an opened a twitter account --- @garycarson I'll be twitting about some ncaa bets I'm making based on the LRMC model.

Decision Analysis 11 Feb 2010 | 01:46 pm

An intoductory lecture to decision analysis

Calculating variance 10 Feb 2010 | 06:03 pm

A simple optimization problem 8 Feb 2010 | 08:23 am

Here's a simple optimization problem that doesn't require anything other than high school algebra and maybe some basic calculus to solve. The technique it illustrates is just one of basic substitutio...

What is optimization? 7 Feb 2010 | 07:08 am

Here's a video of Leon Lasdon giving a talk with some examples of successful applications of operations research. Lasdon is one of the old guys in operations research, and he says something at the st...

What is operations research? 6 Feb 2010 | 12:21 pm

A 6 minute overview of uses of operations research.

Orthogonal 16 Jan 2010 | 03:21 am

In recent arguments before the Supreme Court some lawyer used the word "orthogonal" in a way that I thought was a pretty natural meaning. (see Simple Justice, Washington Post, or Althouse. MR. FRIEDM...

Card shuffling 19 Dec 2009 | 09:07 am

How many dovetail shuffles suffice?