#Statistics

Daniela Witten

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The Bias-Variance Trade-Off & "DOUBLE DESCENT" Remember the bias-variance trade-off? It says that models perform well for an "intermediate level of flexibility". You've seen the picture of the U-shape test

Zachary Binney

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The FDA has approved the first antibody test for COVID-19, from Cellex. It theoretically tells you if you've had it & are, as far as we know, immune for some

Jason Herring

jasonfherring

Here are today's new #COVID19AB numbers:-432 new cases (total now 24,261)-3,651 active cases (up from 3,519)-4 new deaths (total now 300)-112 currently in hospital, 14 in ICU (yesterday: 112 in

Dawn Leger

theflagsofdawn

There has been a lot of talk in the past couple of days about duty and service. They are spoken of with a kind of nostalgia, like these are values

Spencer Greenberg 🔍

SpencrGreenberg

How learning from 1 data point is possible:From a scientific or statistical standpoint, it seems ridiculous to think 1 data point can teach us much. Even a study with 10

Rich "The People's Pundit" Baris

Peoples_Pundit

Now Dr. Fauci is claiming in an interview with @marthamaccallum that the modeling had no impact on the decision."Just take a look at what happened in China. In Italy."Blah, blah,

Olóyè.

oloye__

The democrats have shown themselves in action and in deed not to be a friend to the black people in America. Lydon B Johnson's "war on poverty" only made more

Sergej Sumlenny

sumlenny

In many tapped phone calls between Russian soldiers and their relatives (Russians steal UKR mobile phones, use them, SBU taps) they tell same story: how rich Ukraine is, how much

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Let this sink in—India is likely seeing 25,000-50,000 excess deaths/day.“You can ignore, fail to test, or undercount whatever disease you want—but you can't ignore the dead”And in India , the

Eric Garland

ericgarland

Dear Media: The story is not whatever they said in the last 20 minutes about Trump's health.THE STORY IS THAT THIS BUNCH OF CRIMINALS IS PLAYING AROUND, LEAVING AMERICA WITHOUT

Ian J Brown

ijb19662

Retweeting an article labelled the "Rainbow Reich" is not a good look, the article itself amounts to Holocaust denial, as if Gay men weren't brutally murdered by Hitler's regime.Using far-right

Phillips P. OBrien

PhillipsPOBrien

Some reflections on historical comparisons for the UK's position in the world (now that the polls are done) and how it might be different than many assume. Thanks for those

thomasjbevan.substack.com

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Long Form 2020An Index Of My Work. Journaling Through The Lockdown‘And people... are realising that Netflix is boring, that the news-cycle is speculation &context-free statistics designed to induce despair... and

Julia Wick

sherlyholmes

one interesting byproduct of checking dozens of different local papers everyday is seeing what the through-lines in coronavirus coverage are across the state My LAT colleagues have written about how

Dr Laura McAtackney

LMcAtackney

A tale of two biographies? Sir Hans Sloane, founder of the British Museum, interior collector and slave ownerHere is the rather partial biography from RTE / EPIC: all discoveries, collections

Itai Yanai

ItaiYanai

It is no secret that there are actually two languages of science. On this day – exactly 100 years since the birth of Francois Jacob - check out our new