Kolmogorov’s Axioms homogenize the unknown. argmin.net/p/the-grand-un…

I wrote about measurement, how we don’t understand it, and how it is one of our primary sources of uncertainty and ignorance. argmin.net/p/back-action

A proposed solution.

Scholarship on the Academic Credit Assignment Problem has lost the plot.

An April Fools Day post? Randomness as a tool of deception. argmin.net/p/your-cunning…

Is a statistician smarter than a fifth grader argmin.net/p/is-a-statist…

What percentage of papers in the New England Journal of Medicine are reviewed by medical students?

I wrote about the origins of algorithmic random number generators and how (even today) we can never be sure these numbers are random. argmin.net/p/sounds-like-…

Gergely is right. There is absolutely no reason we have to continue with this rebuttal process.

Set the accept threshold to 50% and work on inclusion in this mad time of too many papers.

I had convinced myself that Fisher wrote The Design of Experiments in 1925, but TIL it was 1935. Oops. That ten-year error changes my whole conception of his thinking.

A beautiful elegy reflecting on chance, statistics, and what connects us by Irena Wang. You and I are not statistics. kernelmag.io/4/adieu

Though his bluster suggested otherwise, no one was as confused by probability as Ronald Fisher. argmin.net/p/maximum-fish…

This suno ai thing is a joke, right?

Diving into the early characterization of noise in radio and how that shaped our views of randomness. argmin.net/p/the-spirit-o…

A few thoughts about math communication and why I have mixed feelings about a bug in the blog’s LaTeX support. (pi day content?) argmin.net/p/math-in-subs…

Takeaways from a month of blogging about the interplay between uncertainty quantification, feedback, and decision making. argmin.net/p/purpose-driv…

I need to get on this Gladstone grift.

I am using this tweet to announce that I am starting a SuperPAC on AI Safety.

xrisk for Some!
e/acc for Others!
Outdated Simpsons references for everyone else!