Derek

If you have read The Cult Of Statistical Significance by Ziliak and McCloskey please share your thoughts on their thesis here!

"Overconfidence is fed by the illusory certainty of hindsight." Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow

Gosset's rule: In any science, attend to oomph.

Generative AI will finally answer how many monkeys with typewriters it takes to recreate Shakespeare

Recreational nihilism serves no political purpose.

"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!"

Strong correlation, low information

Time to pick up pennies in front of a steamroller.

I am an epistemic dependent.

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.

Current household net wealth: -$181,000

Sample collection will continue until the sample mean improves.

I'm a proud determinist

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