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Fermi Estimation
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Category Theory
Reflective Reasoning
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Why square errors?
Aprillion (Peter Hozák)
24d
10
114
Six (and a half) intuitions for KL divergence
TheMcDouglas
2mo
16
80
Report likelihood ratios
Ege Erdil
8mo
9
13
The highest-probability outcome can be out of distribution
tailcalled
1mo
5
29
A Butterfly's View of Probability
Gabriel Wu
6mo
17
134
How long does it take to become Gaussian?
Maxwell Peterson
2y
38
47
Laplace's rule of succession
Ege Erdil
1y
2
62
Book Review of 5 Applied Bayesian Statistics Books
Jan Christian Refsgaard
1y
6
85
How To Fermi Model
habryka
2y
9
137
The Tails Coming Apart As Metaphor For Life
Scott Alexander
4y
37
37
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
280
Why the tails come apart
Thrasymachus
8y
100
17
Most likely is not likely
Malmesbury
10mo
2
15
What is a probabilistic physical theory?
Ege Erdil
12mo
36
8
Slick hyperfinite Ramsey theory proof
Alok Singh
1d
2
54
Formalization as suspension of intuition
adamShimi
9d
18
24
Brun's theorem and sieve theory
Ege Erdil
18d
0
7
Meaningful things are those the universe possesses a semantics for
Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir
8d
14
32
For ELK truth is mostly a distraction
c.trout
1mo
0
89
[Book review] Gödel, Escher, Bach: an in-depth explainer
Sam Marks
1y
20
35
Infra-Topology
Diffractor
8mo
1
34
Rational and irrational infinite integers
Viliam
9mo
27
5
Why are probabilities represented as real numbers instead of rational numbers?
Yaakov T
1mo
9
31
Accelerated [Honors] Calculus
lsusr
9mo
3
37
The Promise and Peril of Finite Sets
davidad
1y
4
117
Category Theory Without The Baggage
johnswentworth
2y
49
22
The Case for Frequentism: Why Bayesian Probability is Fundamentally Unsound and What Science Does Instead
lsusr
8mo
29
11
The generalized Sierpinski-Mazurkiewicz theorem.
Donald Hobson
4mo
4