radford-neal

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   by radford-neal 9y ago

   There are some problems with the field of statistics. They may stem partially from its role in "certifying" results in other sciences, which induces a certain conservatism, and a desire by many less scrupulous practitioners to ju
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   by radford-neal 9y ago

   The chance that anthropogenic climate change will lead to human extinction is much less than 5%. There just isn't any plausible mechanism for this. The one exception is extinction due to climate change triggering a war in which extin
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   by radford-neal 10y ago

   Actually, I think that while there might have been some inspiration from APL, the basic reason is that ASR33 teletype machines have a backarrow character, whose ASCII code is the one more commonly associated with underscore. That explains