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by sieste 3y ago
Books like these should be read by all mathematics/statistics students, not to get better at mathematics, but to see how the concepts they study in theory are relevant in practice.
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by sieste 3y ago
I find the lecture series on the mathmajor youtube channel extremely well made, with very clear explanations, and giving a good feel for what it means to study pure maths. https://m.youtube.com/@mathmajor
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Debunking Peter Zeihan's China Predictions(worldaffairs.blog)
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by sieste 3y ago
Turns out a close up of crystallized caffeine looks exactly like you would imagine!
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Winning Images from Nikon Small World Photo Microscopy Competition(cnn.com)
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by sieste 3y ago
Case in point: My university uses moodle as a learning platform and encourages lecturers to set weekly quizzes, feedback surveys, embedded videos, links to external resources, etc. My course page just has a link to the lecture notes pdf, we
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by sieste 3y ago
The "Cold Blob" illustrates quite well what is happening. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_blob
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by sieste 3y ago
maybe they all share the same password-reuse gene?
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Sketchbook Inspirations(drawinghowtodraw.com)
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by sieste 3y ago
This is similar to David Seah's compact calendar, which has been featured here a few times in the past: https://davidseah.com/node/compact-calendar/
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by sieste 3y ago
Given the tongue in cheek tone of the article, I think he was just trying to be funny, and is now sorry if he has offended anyone with his remark.
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by sieste 3y ago
... but it's really just linear regression.
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The Evolving Quest for a Grand Unified Theory of Mathematics(scientificamerican.com)
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The Cold Blob(en.wikipedia.org)
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Man creates rock sculpture in Cornwall while wife shops(bbc.co.uk)
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by sieste 3y ago
> Europeans voted for this situation, hard, like really, really hard, for years on end. How so? What specific voting behaviour did directly lead to increasing housing prices?
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by sieste 3y ago
The death from/with covid distinction is only relevant here if there is a systematic difference in over/under reporting of covid deaths between red and blue states. If it's a constant bias regardless of state, it would not ch
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Fine, I'll run a regression analysis but it won't make you happy(natesilver.net)
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by sieste 3y ago
That is, if he doesn't get clubbed with a barbell by Nassim Taleb. https://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-anti-kurzwei...
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Lisp languages facilitate building complex bioinformatics applications (2018)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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Climate Activism and Mental Health(bloomberg.com)
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The economic cost of populism(aeaweb.org)
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by sieste 3y ago
That hipster game controller by the same guy is awesome! https://tomtilley.net/projects/hipster-controller/
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by sieste 3y ago
So the Pareto distribution with alpha=2 produces the Lindy effect. Nice result! It looks like this generalises to E(X|X>a)=ka (with alpha depending on k).
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by sieste 3y ago
More than 10 upvotes now. Just here to announce that I'm rolling my eyes hard at your snarky comment, and thinking "aaah typical HN".
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> E[X | X >= a] = 2 * a Is it possible to derive the maximum entropy probability distribution subject to that constraint?
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The Bat, the Ball and the Hopeless(marginalrevolution.com)
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Tau Techno Mechanicus(cnn.com)
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Ritual mass murder was a yoga class(bbc.co.uk)
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by sieste 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37402448

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