ccosm

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   by ccosm 1y ago

   Highly recommend Stats 110 from Blitzstein. Lectures and textbook are all online https://stat110.hsites.harvard.edu/
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   by ccosm 2y ago

   >Basically every advanced/"next generation" thing the article touts has fallen flat on its face when applied to real problems Even Arnold's work? FEEC seemed quite promising last time I was reading about it, but never
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   by ccosm 2y ago

   "I have largely avoided the second law of thermodynamics, which says that entropy always increases. While fascinating, this is so problematic that a good explanation would require another book!" For those interested I am currently
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   by ccosm 5y ago

   No Navier-Stokes? Elasticity?
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   by ccosm 5y ago

   The book for this course is a fantastic practical introduction to Bayesian statistical modeling. If you've ever been curious about probabilistic programming give it a shot. Also if you're rusty in probability and worried about pre
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   by ccosm 5y ago

   Is there a reason why every price increase is referred to as "inflation" these days? I thought inflation had more to do with debasement of a currency than price fluctuations due to supply and demand, with the key functional distin
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   by ccosm 5y ago

   Barring some exponential increase in the usability of FPGA tools, I think the mainstreaming of these technologies will forever remain just around the corner. More coarse-grained architectures like GPUs or reduced-scope architectures with a