Automation, data, and geoscience — for practitioners who build things.
Junior explorers often live and die by the press release. So when one of these companies announces a drill result or a financing, does the stock actually move, and does the move stick? I worked through thirteen years of TSX Venture announcements...
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The county with the highest cancer rate in America is rural. So is the county with the lowest. Both extremes come from the same mechanism, and it isn't...
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Every whole-rock analysis sums to 100%. That single fact, which feels like trivial bookkeeping, breaks every Pearson correlation you ever computed on raw oxide percentages. The closure problem...
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Most beginner Python tutorials use Iris flowers, Titanic passengers, or Boston housing prices. There is a reason a lot of geologists bounce off them, and it is not...
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Everyone tells the Abraham Wald airplane story. It's a great story. It is also slightly misleading, because the planes are obviously gone. The version of survivorship bias that...
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