Derek
@d-coo.bsky.social
Born at 352 ppm UNA Lifetime Member. Former 68W and Series 3. Free car advice. Views expressed explicitly represent my employer in all matters. Notes to self:
"Overconfidence is fed by the illusory certainty of hindsight." Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow
If you have read The Cult Of Statistical Significance by Ziliak and McCloskey please share your thoughts on their thesis here!
Generative AI will finally answer how many monkeys with typewriters it takes to recreate Shakespeare
"Although jobs in local services constitute the vast majority of jobs, they are the 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵, not the 𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦, of economic growth." Moretti, The New Geography of Jobs
"When you allow for deceptiveness, they tend to say they're not conscious... It doesn't really suggest that they're conscious to me, but it does suggest that they might think they're conscious. Which, uh, is also pretty weird." Sam Harris
the Maillard cascade alone involves hundreds of distinct reaction products from a single amino acid + reducing sugar pair
A guy travels half the distance of a room towards a beautiful woman. He pauses for a second, then travels half the remaining distance. "You'll never reach me at this rate!" she says. "True," replies the boy, "but I'll be close enough for all practical purposes!"
P-hacking isn't real. I have here in my hands a list of 19 replication studies where p=0.04 that proves it.
The probability of human extinction is hard to calculate because we can run the experiment approximately once.
A statistician drowned crossing a river that was only three feet deep on average.
If the many-worlds hypothesis is true, it means there is some world where Dick Cheney's body is in your bathtub right now. You better go check.
Charles Wheelan's warning lable for regression analysis: Do Not Use When There Is Not a Linear Association between the Variables That You Are Analyzing
Dyson swarm possible output: 50 yotta watts Current human energy use: 0.00000000002 yottawatts