Sublime

An inspiration engine for ideas

AllPeopleCollectionsArticlesAudioBooksFilesHighlightsImagesLinksNotesTextTweetsVideosSocial

David Lang: Most scientists are under tremendous pressure to constantly publish. That realization caused me to view scientific expertise through the lens of incentives. I’m nervous to use that language, because it’s the same line that conspiracy theorists use to deny and obfuscate facts, but I do think it’s the fault line.

future.a16z.com • 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future

Economically relevant information is discovered from experimentation, not deduced from a model.

Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism

Most people have relatively small concentrations of this particle, but some individuals can have as much as one hundred times more than others. The variation is largely genetic, and an estimated 20 to 30 percent of the US population has levels high enough that they are at increased risk; also, people of African descent tend to have higher levels of

Peter Attia MD • Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity

STATISTICAL INFERENCE PUZZLE @nntaleb Is “2 false positives in 401 trials” consistent with “50 false positives in 3300 trials”? What is a good null hypothesis, and what is the p-value?

Joe Shipman x.com

Lainie Friedman Ross MD, PhD link.springer.com

artificial sensitivity

Jenni Romaniuk • Better Brand Health eBook

This chapter will look at five common pitfalls in statistics and how you, the average consumer, can recognize them.

Albert Rutherford • Statistics for the Rest of Us: Mastering the Art of Understanding Data Without Math Skills (Advanced Thinking Skills Book 4)

Just a moment...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Adam Appich, master of science, is there with several studies that show how legacy cognitive blindness will forever prevent people from acting in their own best interests.