Link. We make mistakes in medicine too — but I wonder if the burden on prosecutors is even greater.
Daily Archives: November 22, 2021
xkcd: Bayes’ Theorem
Link. Mandatory introduction to every Bayes lecture forever.
GOP authoritarianism is permanent.
Link. I suspect less than 40% of Americans are strongly committed to democracy.
“the population can be divided into networks of quasi-homogeneous mixing populations that are internally well-connected but only loosely connected to each other, the effective reproduction number can undergo large fluctuations even in the absence of beh
Link. Simulations have disappointed.
“In 2017, after more than a decade of work, Laporta published his magnum opus — the electron’s magnetic moment to 1,100 digits of precision.“
Link. Love this description of hard core mathematical physics.
“participants who were smokers but had taken naltrexone were less likely to consume high-fat, high-calorie foods than smokers who had been given the placebo.”
Link. Naltrexone is used now in some people with severe obesity.
DeLong’s latest blog home is on substack
Link. At least it has an RSS feed. Because of the way sub stack works I can’t tell how old it is, maybe 2021?