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Why the tails come apart
Thrasymachus
8y
100
137
The Tails Coming Apart As Metaphor For Life
Scott Alexander
4y
37
134
How long does it take to become Gaussian?
Maxwell Peterson
2y
38
114
Six (and a half) intuitions for KL divergence
TheMcDouglas
2mo
16
109
Fermi Estimates
lukeprog
9y
110
98
0 And 1 Are Not Probabilities
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
144
97
Simpson's Paradox
bentarm
11y
58
93
New Improved Lottery
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
43
85
How To Fermi Model
habryka
2y
9
80
Report likelihood ratios
Ege Erdil
8mo
9
62
Book Review of 5 Applied Bayesian Statistics Books
Jan Christian Refsgaard
1y
6
49
Effect heterogeneity and external validity in medicine
Anders_H
3y
14
48
The dangers of zero and one
PhilGoetz
9y
68
47
Laplace's rule of succession
Ege Erdil
1y
2
117
Category Theory Without The Baggage
johnswentworth
2y
49
113
Logical Pinpointing
Eliezer Yudkowsky
10y
344
108
Reflection in Probabilistic Logic
Eliezer Yudkowsky
9y
172
108
Introduction to Introduction to Category Theory
countedblessings
3y
20
106
Mental Context for Model Theory
So8res
9y
47
100
Should correlation coefficients be expressed as angles?
Sniffnoy
10y
25
90
The Truth About Mathematical Ability
JonahS
7y
142
89
Sam Harris and the Is–Ought Gap
Tyrrell_McAllister
4y
46
89
[Book review] Gödel, Escher, Bach: an in-depth explainer
Sam Marks
1y
20
88
Probability space has 2 metrics
Donald Hobson
3y
11
78
Completeness, incompleteness, and what it all means: first versus second order logic
Stuart_Armstrong
10y
39
78
How to pick your categories
12y
22
75
Standard and Nonstandard Numbers
Eliezer Yudkowsky
10y
87
73
The Goldbach conjecture is probably correct; so was Fermat's last theorem
Stuart_Armstrong
2y
27