The morning after posting my latest blog post, I woke up still thinking about how to explain the concept.
More importantly, I realized that my goal of writing math for humans failed miserably.
So here is a second go at it.
First we're told we're in a world where 85 …
I'm currently writing a blog post that uses Bayes' Law but don't want to muddy the post with a review in layman's terms. So I have something to link, here is a short description and a chance to flex my teaching muscles before the school year starts.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
While reading the "Causes Trump Statistics" chapter (number 16), there is a description of a study about cabs …
Early last month, I was chatting with one of my officemates about a curious problem I had studied in high school. I hadn't written any of the results down, so much of the discussion involved me rediscovering the results and proving them with much more powerful tools than I once …
Having just left Google and started my PhD in Applied Mathematics at Berkeley, I thought it might be appropriate to write some (more) math-related blog posts. Many of these posts, I jotted down on napkins and various other places on the web and just haven't had time to post until …