Archive | May, 2010

28 May 2010 1 Comment

Causation, Correlation, and Association

One of my favorite logical screw-ups that people make is confusing correlation or association with causation. Reading this article on the BP mess I noticed a blatant confusion of causation and association. “These individuals are working out in the heat of the sun. These are long days. They start early in the morning, and they [...]

10 May 2010 Comments Off

Fix for QuickTime Player YouTube service temporarily unavailable

A few weeks ago I tried to export a video from QuickTime Player to Youtube and I got this message: Sign in failed because YouTube service for the account “ddn3d” is temporarily unavailable. I figured YouTube had a temporary outage and I moved on. Today I tried to export the same video and got the [...]