I’ve been silent for a long time, but after reading about Orson Scott Card’s ridiculous position on gay marriage, I feel compelled to say something. Like, wtf would Ender or Bean say? Did you think about that Mr. Card? WTF would Ender or Bean say? The article correctly points out the utter lack of reasoning in Card’s so-called arguments, and the comments have a nice supplementary discussion on judicial activism. Why is it that they only call it judicial activism when they disagree?

Getting back to business, I plan to post in a short while on using truncation to estimate expectations of random variables: this turns out to be a powerful and simple technique for answering several of the questions I’ve posted over the past few weeks, like finding the asymptotic behavior of without using the delta method, or showing that grows like where are Exp(1) random variables.