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Why square errors?
Aprillion (Peter Hozák)
24d
10
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Six (and a half) intuitions for KL divergence
TheMcDouglas
2mo
16
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The highest-probability outcome can be out of distribution
tailcalled
1mo
5
67
Report likelihood ratios
Ege Erdil
8mo
9
123
How long does it take to become Gaussian?
Maxwell Peterson
2y
38
37
Laplace's rule of succession
Ege Erdil
1y
2
49
What are some triggers that prompt you to do a Fermi estimate, or to pull up a spreadsheet and make a simple/rough quantitative model?
Eli Tyre
1y
15
54
Book Review of 5 Applied Bayesian Statistics Books
Jan Christian Refsgaard
1y
6
77
How To Fermi Model
habryka
2y
9
313
Why the tails come apart
Thrasymachus
8y
100
120
The Tails Coming Apart As Metaphor For Life
Scott Alexander
4y
37
17
Most likely is not likely
Malmesbury
10mo
2
8
A Butterfly's View of Probability
Gabriel Wu
6mo
17
50
Effect heterogeneity and external validity in medicine
Anders_H
3y
14
50
Formalization as suspension of intuition
adamShimi
9d
18
5
Slick hyperfinite Ramsey theory proof
Alok Singh
1d
2
25
Brun's theorem and sieve theory
Ege Erdil
18d
0
33
For ELK truth is mostly a distraction
c.trout
1mo
0
1
Meaningful things are those the universe possesses a semantics for
Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir
8d
14
35
Infra-Topology
Diffractor
8mo
1
69
[Book review] Gödel, Escher, Bach: an in-depth explainer
Sam Marks
1y
20
39
Accelerated [Honors] Calculus
lsusr
9mo
3
34
Rational and irrational infinite integers
Viliam
9mo
27
15
The generalized Sierpinski-Mazurkiewicz theorem.
Donald Hobson
4mo
4
40
The Promise and Peril of Finite Sets
davidad
1y
4
26
The Case for Frequentism: Why Bayesian Probability is Fundamentally Unsound and What Science Does Instead
lsusr
8mo
29
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Why do som many things break in a 2 element set?
Alok Singh
2mo
3
103
Category Theory Without The Baggage
johnswentworth
2y
49