• 23 Mar 2025Very accurate pi approximationJohn D. Cook
• 23 Mar 2025In arrivo “Storie che contano”, una nuova raccolta di MaddMaths!Maddmaths!
• 23 Mar 2025BrieflyStats Chat
• 23 Mar 2025Screen timeStats Chat
• 22 Mar 2025a journal of the plague and chaos yearXi'an's Og
• 22 Mar 2025Subparacompact spacesDan Ma's Topology Blog
• 22 Mar 2025The ancient Greek mathematics of distorted airplane propeller photos11011110
• 22 Mar 2025Bill CasselmannLab
• 22 Mar 2025Higher Order Sign Relations • 1Inquiry Into Inquiry
• 22 Mar 2025The piranha principle: What does it mean, exactly?Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 22 Mar 2025Jacobi symbolnLab
• 22 Mar 2025Je n’ai pas le temps (Non ho tempo) – Episodio 3 – Essi vivonoMaddmaths!
• 22 Mar 2025Posting on SubstackMathematics Rising
• 21 Mar 2025MaxEnt’ipodes [December 14-19, 2025, U of Auckland, Aotearoa]Xi'an's Og
• 21 Mar 2025Message by a political prisoner on his birthdayMathematics under the Microscope
• 21 Mar 2025Gauss sumnLab
• 21 Mar 2025You can learn a lot from a simple simulation (example of experimental design with unequal variances for treatment and control data)Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 21 Mar 2025Still a better branding choice than "Soylent"West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 21 Mar 2025Ph.D. student position on extreme precipitation in a changing cold climate! Using Bayesian modeling and computation! At the University of Iceland!Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 20 Mar 2025sunset on a ridge [jatp]Xi'an's Og
• 20 Mar 2025Savigny-lès-BeauneXi'an's Og
• 20 Mar 2025Starting a new position at the University of British ColumbiaStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 20 Mar 2025How is an American research university funded?Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 20 Mar 2025Signs Of Signs • 4Inquiry Into Inquiry
• 20 Mar 2025Interior of a conicJohn D. Cook
• 20 Mar 2025The first and second centuries of quantum mechanicsQuantum Frontiers
• 20 Mar 2025Perhaps we should let Turing off the hook as wellWest Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 20 Mar 2025Why I use the term “forking paths”Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 20 Mar 2025Una chiacchierata sullo Scientific Machine Learning con Alfio QuarteroniMaddmaths!
• 20 Mar 2025Visual Insights (Part 2)The n-Category Café
• 20 Mar 2025Visual Insights (Part 2)Azimuth
• 19 Mar 2025IsarMathLib 1.32.0: Update to Isabelle2025 and Uniformity from collection of pseudometricsFormalized Mathematics
• 19 Mar 2025New paper on conformal prediction and human decisionsStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 19 Mar 2025Signs Of Signs • 3Inquiry Into Inquiry
• 19 Mar 2025Defend research against government censorshipPeter Cameron's Blog
• 19 Mar 2025Speaking of government waste . . .Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 19 Mar 2025A Failure to CommunicateComputational Complexity
• 19 Mar 2025Noah may be overthinking "We'll do the Flintstones but in the future, with robots instead of dinosaurs."West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 19 Mar 2025From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XLThe Renaissance Mathematicus
• 19 Mar 2025Giornata Internazionale della Matematica 2025: esploriamo le creazioniMaddmaths!
• 19 Mar 2025“Are Controversies in Statistics Relevant for Responsible AI/ML? (My talk at an AI ethics conference) (ii)Error Statistics Philosophy
• 18 Mar 2025punk rock [cover]Xi'an's Og
• 18 Mar 2025Super Rugby Predictions for Week 6Stats Chat
• 18 Mar 2025NRL Predictions for Round 3Stats Chat
• 18 Mar 2025AFL Predictions for Week 3Stats Chat
• 18 Mar 2025What Can We Learn about Engineering and Innovation from Half a Century of the Game of Life Cellular Automaton?Stephen Wolfram Writings
• 18 Mar 2025Baseball on the MoonThe Universe of Discourse
• 18 Mar 2025Signs Of Signs • 2Inquiry Into Inquiry
• 18 Mar 2025Why isn’t the Cramer-Rao lower bound invoked more in applied research?Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 18 Mar 2025Every picture tells a storyWest Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 18 Mar 2025È logico fare logica a scuola?Maddmaths!
• 18 Mar 2025Good news graphStats Chat
• 17 Mar 2025Stories of your life and Others [book review]Xi'an's Og
• 17 Mar 2025Critique of Yarvin’s SystemAzimuth
• 17 Mar 2025Lessons Learned With the Z3 SAT/SMT SolverJohn D. Cook
• 17 Mar 2025How is the integrity crisis in business reporting like the integrity crisis in science?Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 17 Mar 2025"The SAT Gave Me Hope"West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 17 Mar 2025Realtà o convenienza?Maddmaths!
• 17 Mar 2025The Dark EnlightenmentAzimuth
• 17 Mar 2025Developing an AI for Quantum Chess: Part 1Quantum Frontiers
• 16 Mar 2025Grokking the James Bond chordJohn D. Cook
• 16 Mar 2025statistical accuracy of neural posterior and likelihood estimationXi'an's Og
• 16 Mar 2025My Post-Covid PostComputational Complexity
• 16 Mar 2025Rates of convergenceJohn D. Cook
• 16 Mar 2025Signs Of Signs • 1Inquiry Into Inquiry
• 16 Mar 2025Gluons, quarks, letters, and envelopesJohn D. Cook
• 16 Mar 2025What’s the best artistic/literary format for conveying the feel of the slacker lifestyle? Two slacker stories by Lucy Sante and Matt Madden.Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 16 Mar 2025L’IA riuscirà a dimostrare i più complessi problemi matematici aperti?Maddmaths!
• 15 Mar 2025Example using a generating function to find asymptotic behaviorJohn D. Cook
• 15 Mar 2025total respect (et tant pis pour Jules Verne!)Xi'an's Og
• 15 Mar 2025Elections for the Stan Governing Body 2025Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 15 Mar 2025Hangeul sign-engraving machineThe Universe of Discourse
• 15 Mar 2025Linkage11011110
• 15 Mar 2025Permutations with no consecutive elementsJohn D. Cook
• 15 Mar 2025Double Feature: Revolutionary Road and That Darned ChatbotStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 15 Mar 2025Je n’ai pas le temps (Non ho tempo) – Episodio 2 – Formalizzare le simmetrie: la definizione di gruppoMaddmaths!
• 14 Mar 2025when open publishing is not fair [PCI webinar, 20 March, 4pm CET]Xi'an's Og
• 14 Mar 2025Online activities 17 – 23 MarchEuropean Set Theory Society
• 14 Mar 2025Computing the nth digit of π directlyJohn D. Cook
• 14 Mar 2025Debate about “quantum supremacy” . . . whatever that is!Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 14 Mar 2025At least he didn't call it 'crowd sourcing'West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 14 Mar 2025Giochi matematici disegnati maleMaddmaths!
• 14 Mar 2025RM314, Marzo 2025, è in lineaMaddmaths!
• 13 Mar 2025mass decimation of U.S. scienceXi'an's Og
• 13 Mar 2025DenominatorsStats Chat
• 13 Mar 2025Is conceptual purity the defining aesthetic in academic computer science?Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 13 Mar 2025Intelligence as a personal attribute or as a way of being (a reflection on when intelligent people say stupid things)Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 13 Mar 2025History of maths for beginners!The Renaissance Mathematicus
• 13 Mar 2025I tried to come up with a snarky title, but I was hard-pressed to top "timeless appeal" -- another entry in our Adventures in IP threadWest Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 12 Mar 2025Cactus Language • Overview 4Inquiry Into Inquiry
• 12 Mar 2025Those youth sports travel teamsStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 12 Mar 2025Covid and ComplexityComputational Complexity
• 12 Mar 2025How can we possibly hope to rebuild after losing more than one half of a percent of our housing?West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 12 Mar 2025Category Theory 2025The n-Category Café
• 12 Mar 2025More Panadol scare headlinesStats Chat
• 12 Mar 2025BrieflyStats Chat
• 11 Mar 2025Truth and the war in UkraineDavid Ketcheson
• 11 Mar 2025StanBio Connect 2025Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 11 Mar 2025Online activities 10 – 16 MarchEuropean Set Theory Society
• 11 Mar 2025What does Jesus have to do with linear regression?Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 11 Mar 2025Note to Elon: When people are accusing you of being a Nazi, blaming it on a George Soros conspiracy may not be the smartest move.West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 11 Mar 2025Contestants and AI competitor predict cherry blossoms this month!Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 11 Mar 2025United Rugby Championship Predictions for Week 13Stats Chat
• 10 Mar 2025Schubert, extraordinarilyLogic Matters
• 10 Mar 2025Colossus versus El Capitan: A Tale of Two SupercomputersJohn D. Cook
• 10 Mar 2025The value of remembering past failures: the example of Mars OneStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 10 Mar 2025Ten years ago at the blog, March was pretty much Mars One monthWest Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 09 Mar 2025Unicode, Tolkien, and PrivacyJohn D. Cook
• 09 Mar 2025Unicode surrogatesJohn D. Cook
• 09 Mar 2025Numbers that look prime but aren'tComputational Complexity
• 09 Mar 2025Practical consequences of tokenization detailsJohn D. Cook
• 09 Mar 2025CompactnessPeter Cameron's Blog
• 09 Mar 202570,000 AssyriansStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 09 Mar 2025On Columbia in the crosshairsShtetl-Optimized
• 08 Mar 2025ChatGPT tokens and UnicodeJohn D. Cook
• 08 Mar 2025“A Post Mortem on the Gino Case”: “Committing fraud is, right now, a viable career strategy that can propel you at the top of the academic world.”Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 08 Mar 2025nauty for your iPhone – updateSymOmega
• 08 Mar 2025Claude and Merle Miller let me downThe Universe of Discourse
• 07 Mar 2025Cactus Language • Overview 3Inquiry Into Inquiry
• 07 Mar 2025Standing up for ScienceThe Geomblog
• 07 Mar 2025HallucinationsLogic Matters
• 07 Mar 2025The difference between tokens and wordsJohn D. Cook
• 07 Mar 2025The answer to the how-many-significant-digits problem is the same as the answer to the what-to-graph problem: The click-through solutionStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 07 Mar 2025XKCD on DSTWest Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 07 Mar 2025Visual Insights (Part 1)The n-Category Café
• 07 Mar 2025Visual Insights (Part 1)Azimuth
• 07 Mar 2025Reflector gridsThe Universe of Discourse
• 06 Mar 20252025 Gödel Prize: Call for Nominations (Due April 11)Turing's Invisible Hand
• 06 Mar 2025A simpler GELU activation function approximationJohn D. Cook
• 06 Mar 2025Introduction to modal model theory, Panglobal Algebra and Logic Seminar, Boulder, March 2025Joel David Hamkins
• 06 Mar 20252025 William Reinhardt Memorial Lecture, BoulderJoel David Hamkins
• 06 Mar 2025Spreading out words in spaceJohn D. Cook
• 06 Mar 2025Cactus Language • Overview 2Inquiry Into Inquiry
• 06 Mar 2025Playing music, listening to music, background music, talking about musicStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 06 Mar 2025Have we mentioned how unfair it is to single out Arthur Conan Doyle?West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 06 Mar 2025What does it mean to create a topological qubit?Quantum Frontiers
• 05 Mar 2025On Making Databases Run FasterJohn D. Cook
• 05 Mar 2025Taking a StandComputational Complexity
• 05 Mar 2025No, an election forecast that’s 50-50 is not “giving up.” No, the election forecasters in 2024 did not say, “Whatever happened, it was supposed to be razor thin.”Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 05 Mar 2025Clive James's example may be god-awful, but what about the point he was trying to make?West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 05 Mar 2025From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XXXIXThe Renaissance Mathematicus
• 04 Mar 2025Jacob Barandes and MeShtetl-Optimized
• 04 Mar 2025How Good are Permutation Represesentations?The n-Category Café
• 04 Mar 2025My desert island discsStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 04 Mar 2025A Blacker Black BoxWest Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 03 Mar 2025Boolean Grid IIOR in an OB World
• 03 Mar 2025Knuth prize call for nominationsWindows On Theory
• 03 Mar 2025Online activities 3 – 9 MarchEuropean Set Theory Society
• 03 Mar 2025The Evil VectorShtetl-Optimized
• 03 Mar 2025Duplicating a hand-drawn contour plotJohn D. Cook
• 03 Mar 2025Looking at your watch a third time waiting in the station for the busStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 03 Mar 2025Reproducing a hand-drawn plotJohn D. Cook
• 03 Mar 2025The Grandiosity/Contribution Ratio -- another newly relevant repostWest Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 02 Mar 2025Karp recently turned 90 but there was no conference to celebrate that. Which numbers do we use and why?Computational Complexity
• 02 Mar 2025Oh, the Insights You’ll Show!Laura Albert's Punk Rock Operations Research
• 02 Mar 2025“On or about December 2010 the behavioral sciences changed” and Eggers on The case against Hypothesis 1Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 01 Mar 2025What is partial pivoting?John D. Cook
• 01 Mar 2025Cactus Language • Overview 1Inquiry Into Inquiry
• 01 Mar 2025Positive but not perfect correlations in novel-writing and psychometricsStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 01 Mar 2025Jonathan ChaitThe Universe of Discourse
• 01 Mar 2025YOU get a leap year! And YOU get a leap year!God plays dice
• 28 Feb 2025A Boolean GridOR in an OB World
• 28 Feb 2025Linkage11011110
• 28 Feb 2025The R-squared on this is kinda low, no? (Nobel prize edition)Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 28 Feb 2025Max and min orbital speedJohn D. Cook
• 28 Feb 2025Martian Leap YearsJohn D. Cook
• 28 Feb 2025A calendar for MarsJohn D. Cook
• 28 Feb 2025More thoughts on criticism -- critics and reviewersWest Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 28 Feb 2025Retirement dayPeter Cameron's Blog
• 27 Feb 2025Claude chokes on graph theoryThe Universe of Discourse
• 27 Feb 2025ICT once againLogic Matters
• 27 Feb 2025Code Profiling Without a ProfilerJohn D. Cook
• 27 Feb 2025Experts can see for miles; non-experts are walking around in the tall grass and can’t see past their next step. When it comes to geometry, I’m no expert.Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 27 Feb 2025Ouch❢Inquiry Into Inquiry
• 27 Feb 2025Two completely unrelated news storiesWest Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 26 Feb 2025Leisurely Cruise February 2025: power, shpower, positive predictive valueError Statistics Philosophy
• 26 Feb 2025Furniture MeccaThe Universe of Discourse
• 26 Feb 2025Potential Functions and the Magnitude of Functors 2The n-Category Café
• 26 Feb 2025Do perimeter and area determine a triangle?John D. Cook
• 26 Feb 2025You Need Much Less Memory than TimeComputational Complexity
• 26 Feb 2025Assistant Professor position in Mathematical Logic at Stockholm, deadline 15 AprilEuropean Set Theory Society
• 26 Feb 2025Our proposal for scheduled post-publication review: “Even if each review took twice the effort of the average pre-publication review, our system would add only 1 percent to the total reviewing effort, while providing important perspectives on papers representing more than one-quarter of the citations received by these influential journals.”Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 26 Feb 2025"There seems to be a plague of jellyfish and really a plague of anything is usually not considered good."West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 26 Feb 2025Quantum Computing Skepticism, Part 2: My View and Responses to Skeptical Claims—Featuring John Preskill, Scott Aaronson, Dave Bacon, Aram Harrow, and Boaz BarakCombinatorics and more
• 26 Feb 2025An engraver and instrument maker, who founded a dynastyThe Renaissance Mathematicus
• 26 Feb 2025The three-dimensional Kakeya conjecture, after Wang and ZahlWhat's new
• 26 Feb 2025The three-dimensional Kakeya conjecture, after Wang and ZahlWhat's new
• 26 Feb 2025You can nominate someone for the American Statistical Association’s Excellence in Statistical Reporting AwardStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 25 Feb 2025What is interesting writing and can LLMs create it?Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 25 Feb 2025Beware scientists who don’t dogfood it.Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 25 Feb 2025Thiel is Dr. Mabuse. Musk is Cobra Commander.West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 25 Feb 2025Introduction à la dynamique 2024-2025Jérôme Buzzi’s
• 24 Feb 2025Entries due this Friday! Predict cherry blossom dates in five citiesStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 24 Feb 2025Blooming caterpillars11011110
• 24 Feb 2025Ryan Williams strikes againShtetl-Optimized
• 24 Feb 2025Fiction and standup comedyStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 24 Feb 2025How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the LLM part 2 -- a proof-reader, not an editorWest Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 24 Feb 2025Settlers versus HipstersJohn D. Cook
• 24 Feb 2025Online activities 24 February – 2 MarchEuropean Set Theory Society
• 24 Feb 2025Why my department hopes I do not die this springComputational Complexity
• 24 Feb 2025Azimuth News (Part 7)Azimuth
• 24 Feb 2025Closing the “green gap”: from the mathematics of the landscape function to lower electricity costs for householdsWhat's new
• 24 Feb 2025Closing the “green gap”: from the mathematics of the landscape function to lower electricity costs for householdsWhat's new
• 23 Feb 2025My 4-year-old declares 36 the best numberMath ∩ Programming
• 23 Feb 2025Complex golden convergenceJohn D. Cook
• 23 Feb 2025Commissars screwing with the U.S. government don’t want us to see the dataStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 23 Feb 2025Potential Functions and the Magnitude of Functors 1The n-Category Café
• 22 Feb 2025Government Advances in Statistical Programming conference, 25-26 June 2025Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 22 Feb 2025Golden convergenceJohn D. Cook
• 22 Feb 2025“Why don’t machine learning and large language model evaluations report uncertainty?”Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 21 Feb 2025Approaching the singularity (not in a good way)Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 21 Feb 2025"What was Clive James thinking?" Maybe the question is when was he thinking it?West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
• 21 Feb 2025Majorana Zero Modes and Topological QubitsCombinatorics and more
• 21 Feb 2025Leopards, faces, etc.The Universe of Discourse
• 20 Feb 2025Mnemonic images with Grok 3John D. Cook
• 20 Feb 2025Perfectly stable climates and other statistical mythsStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• 20 Feb 2025Visualizing the Henson graph11011110
• 20 Feb 2025What are the modern myths?Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

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