• 29 Apr 2025Of plagues and chickens: How can someone be so skeptical in one place and so credulous somewhere else?Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 29 Apr 2025Knuth’s series for chi squared percentage pointsJohn D. Cook
• 29 Apr 2025Will the robotaxi business really be worth $443 billion to Tesla?West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 29 Apr 2025Comparative ultra-processed reportsStats Chat
• 29 Apr 2025Chi squared approximationsJohn D. Cook
• 29 Apr 2025Rugby Premiership Predictions for Round 16Stats Chat
• 29 Apr 2025United Rugby Championship Predictions for Week 17Stats Chat
• 29 Apr 2025Top 14 Predictions for Round 23Stats Chat
• 29 Apr 2025Super Rugby Predictions for Week 12Stats Chat
• 29 Apr 2025NRL Predictions for Round 9Stats Chat
• 29 Apr 2025AFL Predictions for Week 9Stats Chat
• 28 Apr 2025Denominators and US travelStats Chat
• 28 Apr 2025Surprising everyday non-preventionStats Chat
• 28 Apr 2025project 2025 in [brute] forceXi'an's Og
• 28 Apr 2025Variance of variances. All is variance.John D. Cook
• 28 Apr 2025Routing With SequencingOR in an OB World
• 28 Apr 2025Generalizing for Sampling and Causal Inference (my talk 3pm today at the University of Maryland)Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 28 Apr 2025#SummerOfScarcityWest Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 28 Apr 2025Online activities 28 April – 4 MayEuropean Set Theory Society
• 28 Apr 2025Quantum automataQuantum Frontiers
• 27 Apr 2025Distribution of run times for Euclidean algorithmJohn D. Cook
• 27 Apr 2025proximal samplerXi'an's Og
• 27 Apr 2025A personal view of the NSF hot mess: My REU programComputational Complexity
• 27 Apr 2025AdjunctionsJohn D. Cook
• 27 Apr 2025Error statistics doesn’t blame for possible future crimes of QRPs (ii)Error Statistics Philosophy
• 27 Apr 2025Transpose and AdjointJohn D. Cook
• 27 Apr 2025I don’t buy that claim that “eating whole foods and avoiding toxins” is a “horseshoe” alliance of the far left and far rightStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 26 Apr 2025Bernese trilogy [15h30]Xi'an's Og
• 26 Apr 2025Willie Singletary will you please go now?The Universe of Discourse
• 26 Apr 2025“Either a 2% or a 75% chance of rain”Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 26 Apr 2025Mathematics PhD students of Aubrey Edward LandryYet Another Mathblog
• 26 Apr 2025Je n’ai pas le temps (Non ho tempo) – Episodio 8 – Il teorema enormeMaddmaths!
• 26 Apr 2025I've joined the editorial board of Journal of Noncommutative GeometryPieter Belmans
• 25 Apr 2025support for UNHCRXi'an's Og
• 25 Apr 2025Cactus Language • Preliminaries 9Inquiry Into Inquiry
• 25 Apr 2025The well-meaning but useless or counterproductive social science establishmentStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 25 Apr 2025Al-Khwarizmi didn’t invent the algorithm! A HISTCI_HULK STOMP for the weekendThe Renaissance Mathematicus
• 25 Apr 2025Rithmomachia python moduleYet Another Mathblog
• 25 Apr 2025Markets can remain high on LSD longer than you can remain solvent.West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 25 Apr 2025An ADElphabetPeter Cameron's Blog
• 25 Apr 2025How our toy octopuses got revenge on a Philadelphia traffic court judgeThe Universe of Discourse
• 24 Apr 2025inside Africa [cover]Xi'an's Og
• 24 Apr 2025Civilizational Collapse (Part 5)Azimuth
• 24 Apr 2025Overtones and Barbershop QuartetsJohn D. Cook
• 24 Apr 2025Equipentatonic scaleJohn D. Cook
• 24 Apr 2025Compact convex subsets of Euclidean spaceHydrobates
• 24 Apr 2025Let’s take apart this claim by Christopher Lasch from 1977 that hasn’t aged well: “Such changes have made both racist ideology and the ideology of martial conquest, appropriate to an earlier age of empire-building, increasingly anachronistic.”Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 24 Apr 2025Fight FiercelyShtetl-Optimized
• 24 Apr 2025"Been down so long it looks like up to me" -- a tale told mostly in tweets*West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 24 Apr 2025Reti di passaggi per vincere una partitaMaddmaths!
• 24 Apr 2025Convocazione della terza assemblea dell’Associazione MaddMaths! ETSMaddmaths!
• 23 Apr 2025a journal of the constant chaos yearXi'an's Og
• 23 Apr 2025The multiple coupon collector problemJohn D. Cook
• 23 Apr 2025Stonean spaces, projective objects, the Riesz representation theorem, and (possibly) condensed mathematicsWhat's new
• 23 Apr 2025Stonean spaces, projective objects, the Riesz representation theorem, and (possibly) condensed mathematicsWhat's new
• 23 Apr 2025“The difference between ‘significant’ and ‘not significant’ is not itself statistically significant” . . . in the wild!Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 23 Apr 2025Real PeopleComputational Complexity
• 23 Apr 2025Morse code and the limits of human perceptionJohn D. Cook
• 23 Apr 2025Friday 10am: Online conversation on “Experiments, Causal Inference, and Limits of Evidence” with Nancy Cartwright and Berna DevezerStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 23 Apr 2025We'll be okay as long as the Silicon Valley grown-up are in charge -- Greenland editionWest Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 23 Apr 2025It’s too Eurocentric!The Renaissance Mathematicus
• 23 Apr 2025Problemi Classici – Giochi LogiciMaddmaths!
• 22 Apr 2025Bayesian decision-theory for data privacy [surfin’ the Oce’n, 30 April, INRIA Paris]Xi'an's Og
• 22 Apr 2025Cactus Language • Preliminaries 8Inquiry Into Inquiry
• 22 Apr 2025Earth Day: Pogo and our responsibilityDoc Madhattan
• 22 Apr 2025The Error-Reversal Heuristic: How would you have reacted had the mistake gone in the opposite direction?Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 22 Apr 2025Of course, the chances of people relying on their 401(k)s breaking even are much slimmerWest Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 22 Apr 2025United Rugby Championship Predictions for Week 16Stats Chat
• 22 Apr 2025FOCUS MADDMATHS! – Nuove Indicazioni Nazionali 2025: Intervento sulla sinergia tra Matematica e Informatica di Alice Raffaele e Giovanni RighiniMaddmaths!
• 21 Apr 2025oh, dog…!Xi'an's Og
• 21 Apr 2025New course this fall at Columbia: Laboratory in Justice Data ScienceStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 21 Apr 2025The Church of Logic podcast, April 2025Joel David Hamkins
• 21 Apr 2025Running the Gregorian calendar backwardsJohn D. Cook
• 21 Apr 2025What day of the year will have the fewest noninduced births? (Difference between mathematical and statistical reasoning)Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 21 Apr 2025Avevamo i numeri – Storie di matematiciMaddmaths!
• 21 Apr 2025Though not directly related to the IRS story, I have to mention that the "spend more time with his families" joke has gotten much more relevant recentlyWest Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 21 Apr 2025Turing e l’intelligenza artificialeMaddmaths!
• 21 Apr 2025Quantum Algorithms: A Call To ActionQuantum Frontiers
• 21 Apr 2025Fredholm AlternativeJohn D. Cook
• 21 Apr 2025Fredholm indexJohn D. Cook
• 20 Apr 2025إذا مت، أريد موتة صاخبة (Fatima Hassouna, 1999-2025)Xi'an's Og
• 20 Apr 2025Which infinite graphs can DFS explore?11011110
• 20 Apr 2025Percheron [a nag, indeed!]Xi'an's Og
• 20 Apr 2025Intergenerational socioeconomic mobility over time for different ethnic groupsStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 20 Apr 2025Storie che contano: 2) Valentina Penza, “π”Maddmaths!
• 19 Apr 2025The Solution of Feige’s conjecture by Guruswami, Kothari and Manohar (Re-blogged from “In Theory”)Combinatorics and more
• 19 Apr 2025Kernel and CokernelJohn D. Cook
• 19 Apr 2025Cactus Language • Preliminaries 7Inquiry Into Inquiry
• 19 Apr 2025Buy your Tesla at closing time: For 15 years, these stocks have been mildly fluctuating during the day and shooting up overnight.Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 19 Apr 2025Ruin and desolationPeter Cameron's Blog
• 19 Apr 2025Je n’ai pas le temps (Non ho tempo) – Episodio 7 (filler) – Verso l’infinito e oltre: Apologia di un gruppistaMaddmaths!
• 18 Apr 2025Dumb statistical models, always making people look badStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 18 Apr 2025Topological Abelian GroupsJohn D. Cook
• 18 Apr 2025Doxastic Logic: a model of beliefsStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 18 Apr 2025And it makes parallel parking a breeze.West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 18 Apr 2025Online activities 21 – 17 AprilEuropean Set Theory Society
• 18 Apr 2025AIprl FoolPeter Cameron's Blog
• 18 Apr 2025From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XLIIThe Renaissance Mathematicus
• 18 Apr 2025Tutti gli eventi italiani per la Giornata Internazionale delle Donne Matematiche 2025Maddmaths!
• 18 Apr 2025Thomas BasilenLab
• 18 Apr 2025Millionth powersJohn D. Cook
• 17 Apr 2025What happened to genetic algorithms?Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 17 Apr 2025Infinite dimensional de Rham cohomologyStacks Project Blog
• 17 Apr 2025A suspicious conferenceWhat's new
• 17 Apr 2025A suspicious conferenceWhat's new
• 17 Apr 2025Drowning in junk science: Is there any hope at all?Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 17 Apr 2025For a narcissist with a messiah complex, this is actually pretty much on brand.West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 17 Apr 2025Help me work out what's wrong with this LaTeX (now solved!)Check my working
• 17 Apr 2025A new journal just for publishing reanalyses of published empirical research findingsStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 16 Apr 2025Mr. Bell and Bell numbersJohn D. Cook
• 16 Apr 2025Eisenhower's Farewell AddressComputational Complexity
• 16 Apr 2025Cactus Language • Preliminaries 6Inquiry Into Inquiry
• 16 Apr 2025How many ways can you triangulate a regular polygon?John D. Cook
• 16 Apr 2025Did Non-Voters Really Flip Republican in 2024?Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 16 Apr 2025"Strauss and the war on data" was one of our most successful early posts but I would dearly love never to have another excuse to revisit it.West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 16 Apr 2025Support for HarvardPeter Cameron's Blog
• 16 Apr 2025Position in StellenboschThe n-Category Café
• 15 Apr 2025Linkage11011110
• 15 Apr 2025HEIR talk at FHE.orgMath ∩ Programming
• 15 Apr 2025I speak at Harvard as it faces its biggest crisis since 1636Shtetl-Optimized
• 15 Apr 2025The hinge function provided “a tractable solution to an important and long standing problem in the field of fluvial geomorphology–the prediction of bedload sediment transport in rivers.” How cool is that?Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 15 Apr 2025Why, Robot?West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 15 Apr 2025Categorical Linguistics in QuantaThe n-Category Café
• 15 Apr 20251000 most common wordsJohn D. Cook
• 14 Apr 2025Retaining Libraries During R UpgradesOR in an OB World
• 14 Apr 2025My most rage-inducing beliefsShtetl-Optimized
• 14 Apr 2025Miscellaneous mathematical symbolsJohn D. Cook
• 14 Apr 2025“No Vehicles in the Park”: A multilevel-model computing saga (including some Bayesian workflow)Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 14 Apr 2025I want an application of this application of Ramsey Theory to SemigroupsComputational Complexity
• 14 Apr 2025If you're presenting two interpretations of Musk and you literally label one of them the "real Elon," you may have revealed a slight biasWest Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 14 Apr 2025Series of Lectures for the Bermuda Monetary AuthorityFreakonometrics
• 14 Apr 2025Roderick Little’s new book: Seminal Ideas and Controversies in StatisticsError Statistics Philosophy
• 13 Apr 2025Erdős-Mordell triangle theoremJohn D. Cook
• 13 Apr 2025Cactus Language • Preliminaries 5Inquiry Into Inquiry
• 13 Apr 2025Sprouts2025 Wrap-upCombinatorial Game Theory
• 13 Apr 2025Sprouts 2025 Keynote and Afternoon Session SummariesCombinatorial Game Theory
• 13 Apr 2025“Republicans Want to Change the Culture. Can They?”Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 13 Apr 2025Fifth European Set Theory Colloquium, 22 MayEuropean Set Theory Society
• 13 Apr 2025Conference on the occasion of Jörg Brendle’s 60th birthday, 2 – 5 September KobeEuropean Set Theory Society
• 13 Apr 2025Shimura varieties and their canonical integral modelsHard Arithmetic
• 13 Apr 2025Sprouts 2025 Morning TalksCombinatorial Game Theory
• 12 Apr 2025Logarithmic sawtoothJohn D. Cook
• 12 Apr 2025Funniest spam of the week (an offer of $200,000)Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 12 Apr 2025Mathematical models for T cell activation, part 2Hydrobates
• 12 Apr 2025When Benford’s law is exactJohn D. Cook
• 11 Apr 2025Cactus Language • Preliminaries 4Inquiry Into Inquiry
• 11 Apr 2025Skepticism about the science establishment, then and nowStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 11 Apr 2025Mathematics Münster full grant scholarship for international master studentsEuropean Set Theory Society
• 11 Apr 2025Patrick Boyle is the ideal choice for explaining the business of Elon MuskWest Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 11 Apr 20258th Workshop on Generalized Descriptive Set Theory, Helsinki 20 – 22 AugustEuropean Set Theory Society
• 11 Apr 2025Online activities 14 – 20 AprilEuropean Set Theory Society
• 10 Apr 2025Theoretical Computer Science for AI Alignment … and MoreShtetl-Optimized
• 10 Apr 2025Congratulations, Dr. Zheng!11011110
• 10 Apr 2025Blue Rose Research is hiring !Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 10 Apr 2025Lots of flat sidesJohn D. Cook
• 10 Apr 2025“It was, in retrospect, a festival of side-taking.”Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 10 Apr 2025Paradoxes of segmentation and discrimination in insuranceFreakonometrics
• 10 Apr 2025"Because it felt so good when they paused."West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 10 Apr 2025The Land Between Two RiversThe Renaissance Mathematicus
• 09 Apr 2025Bo’az Klartag: Striking new Lower Bounds for Sphere Packing in High DimensionsCombinatorics and more
• 09 Apr 2025Why Can't We Break Cryptography?Computational Complexity
• 09 Apr 2025There is no empirical optimalStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 09 Apr 2025Cactus Language • Preliminaries 3Inquiry Into Inquiry
• 09 Apr 2025Proving a null hypothesis?Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 09 Apr 2025Feeling SignificanceStats With Cats Blog
• 09 Apr 2025"The Problems With Humanoid Robots"West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 09 Apr 2025Prix Junior Maryam Mirzakhani 2025Jérôme Buzzi’s
• 08 Apr 2025Les paradoxes de la segmentation et de la discrimination en assuranceFreakonometrics
• 08 Apr 2025Introducing Lasnev spacesDan Ma's Topology Blog
• 08 Apr 2025Top 100 radioJohn D. Cook
• 08 Apr 2025Why is modern poetry so hard to read? Adam Kirsch offers a clue.Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 08 Apr 2025Sure, the whole humanoid robot thing is a scam, but at least Musk puts some effort into it.West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 08 Apr 2025Baseball Obscura 2025 updateStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 07 Apr 2025Quantum EllipsoidsAzimuth
• 07 Apr 2025Quantum EllipsoidsThe n-Category Café
• 07 Apr 2025Causality and Crime: In science as in genre storytelling, the thrill of the unexpected can only come with reference to (and in confounding) some preexisting norm.Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 07 Apr 2025The Shrikhande graphPeter Cameron's Blog
• 07 Apr 2025The "we'll be okay as long as Elon is in charge" take has aged badly.West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 07 Apr 2025Mesurer et corriger les biais dans les systèmes d’IAFreakonometrics
• 07 Apr 2025I was invited to a Nutrition conference. Why?Computational Complexity
• 06 Apr 2025A potentialist conception of ultrafinitism, Columbia University, April 2025Joel David Hamkins
• 06 Apr 2025The hierarchy of consistency strengths for membership in a computably enumerable set, Oxford Logic Seminar, May 2025Joel David Hamkins
• 06 Apr 2025Estimating satellite altitude from apparent motionJohn D. Cook
• 06 Apr 2025Too much unrelenting positivityStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 05 Apr 2025Cactus Language • Preliminaries 2Inquiry Into Inquiry
• 05 Apr 2025Carbon Content in Dwarf StarsDoc Madhattan
• 05 Apr 2025He can’t pay his bills but he has a second home . . . Whassup with that?Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 04 Apr 2025Linear KdV dispersionJohn D. Cook
• 04 Apr 2025Why I no longer use the term “cargo-cult science”Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 04 Apr 2025Is Elon stepping back to spend more time with his families?West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 04 Apr 2025Hong Wang and Joshua Zahl’s Solution for the Kakeya Problem in Three Dimensions – Reflections and LinksCombinatorics and more
• 04 Apr 20254 years ago: Falsifying claims of trust in bat coronavirus research: mysteries of the mine (i)-(iv)Error Statistics Philosophy
• 03 Apr 2025What we can say about Google and 2024 Nobel PrizesDoc Madhattan
• 03 Apr 2025Analytics positions for the Miami Marlins (baseball)Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 03 Apr 2025In favor of the morally sane thingShtetl-Optimized
• 03 Apr 2025Rithmomachia: notationYet Another Mathblog
• 03 Apr 2025“Exposing omitted moderators: Explaining why effect sizes differ in the social sciences”Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 03 Apr 2025Why should robots look like us and, more to the point, why should we look like us?West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 02 Apr 2025A brief note about Michael spaceDan Ma's Topology Blog
• 02 Apr 2025“AI Needs Specialization to Generalize”Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 02 Apr 2025This seems like a good time to revisit the idea of omnicompetenceWest Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 02 Apr 2025From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XLIThe Renaissance Mathematicus
• 02 Apr 2025Variable Velocity Tumble BuggyMegan Hayes-Golding
• 01 Apr 2025There’s no accounting for taste, whodunnit edition.Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 01 Apr 2025Confidence and Fairness: Scientific Foundations in AI and Risk (mid-May in Paris)Freakonometrics
• 01 Apr 2025Plagiarist USC celebrity doctor: What’s he been up to lately?Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 01 Apr 2025PDQ Shor (?-2025)Computational Complexity
• 01 Apr 2025Reposting this one because it's April 1st and because it has one of my favorite titlesWest Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 01 Apr 2025Leaked: A Private Message From ChatGPTError Statistics Philosophy
• 01 Apr 2025Does Baby Have HatMath ∩ Programming
• 01 Apr 2025It’s About Time: my (remote) talk this Thursday in SwedenStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 31 Mar 2025This grumpy seven-year-old is pretty fed upGeometry Bulletin Board
• 31 Mar 2025Closed-form minimal surface solutionsJohn D. Cook
• 31 Mar 2025Who could have imagined it? The IPCC working group 1 folks.Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 31 Mar 2025Linkage11011110
• 31 Mar 2025Where sports, statistics, and literature meet: Comparing David Fleming to Bill JamesStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 31 Mar 2025In the interest of efficiency, I’m reusing the following headline: “Controlling the boards of both companies may have helped with the negotiations”West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 31 Mar 2025Tragedy in one shitty actShtetl-Optimized
• 31 Mar 2025How writing a popular-science book led to a Nature Physics paperQuantum Frontiers
• 30 Mar 2025Cactus Language • Preliminaries 1Inquiry Into Inquiry
• 30 Mar 2025Online activities 31 March – 6 AprilEuropean Set Theory Society
• 30 Mar 2025The reciprocal betrayals of Saul Bellow and Paul MeehlStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 30 Mar 2025Fundamental solutionJohn D. Cook
• 30 Mar 2025No matter how dubiousJohn D. Cook
• 29 Mar 2025New Post on Substack: Against DeceptionMathematics Rising
• 29 Mar 2025Survey's are done stupidly/A stupid question from a surveyComputational Complexity
• 29 Mar 2025Memories of CFSGPeter Cameron's Blog

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