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Editorial text isn't very interesting; they call for descriptive statistics and don't recommend any particular analysis.

'MIRI' works in the search field when electing a charity to get 0.5% of your https://smile.amazon.com purchases.

Has anyone read "How We Reason" by Philip Johnson-Laird? He and others in his field (the "model theory" of psychology/cognitive science) cla

Adam Alter lists some evidence from people who study the effects of "disfluency" (unfamiliarity, or lack of clarity), which somewhat surpris

How many people feel despair in imagining a heaven (positive singularity) that they'll miss out on if they don't survive long enough? I don'

In Copenhagen the summer before last, I shared a taxi with a man who thought his chance of dying in an artificial intelligence-related accid

Three Toed Sloth has a nice exposition on the difficulties of optimizing an economy, including the best explanation of convex optimization e

I laughed: SMBC comic.

Anyone else going? http://blog.daggre.org/ Looks like you can barely get direct roundtrip from LA<->DC for $600 now (probably double that

If you'd like to see some visual representations of conditional independence is neither necessary or sufficient for independence, confoundin