#Mathematical

Oleg Urminsky

OlegUrminsky

I have reservations about this opinion I'm seeing expressed quite a bit:"academics on campus specializing in social sciences should have been more involved to better factor in human behavior." Thread...https://www.bloomberg.co

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

nntaleb

A mathematical mind works in reverse: a matrix is a special case of a tensor, a vector a special case of a matrix.In probability, those NonRussians who start from special

D. Sivakumar

dsivakumar

""23 things I didn't learn in college / grad school":#14: Strive for clarity. As you plan your next project, a body of work for a quarter or a year, ask

Matt Dempsey

mizzousundevil

I think every data journalist who tracks this pandemic is with me on this:It is utterly exhausting explaining and shooting down the same misinformed arguments related to this virus over

ProductBootcampTim

PostFactSojourn

I assume the data behind this genuinely points to it being better for kids and their parents to risk getting COVID than it is for them to stay home. But

Ian Jackson😷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 3.5%

dr_ianjackson

This has to be called out for what it is. In every walk of life we are seeing people in denial about what is happening around us in our hospitals.

Andy Schwen

mrschwen

For those interested in standards based grading for their classroom, I'd like to give an example of how to grade student work. I'm sharing an image of a math student

MultifractelFarol

Mephisto731

Threads to take to your mind off things, something more interesting I hope. Part 1. Tail risk, done cleanly, is pure convexity and no beta. You’re looking for cheap optionality.

Oliver Johnson

BristOliver

CORRECTION: I did a tweet thread yesterday which honestly went unexpectedly nuts. @arendbayer has pointed out that it contained a pretty serious mathematical error which I'd like to acknowledge and

Nuru Mohammed

NuruMohammed

@Seal_67 @obiasika I think you will find this post I found interesting... ERNEST OKONKWO: THE GOLDEN VOICE...This generation know the likes of Martin Tyler, Peter Drury, Jim Beglin and Jon

Peter Turchin

Peter_Turchin

As I am watching the election coverage, I can't help but think about it in a broader context -- that of Asimov's Psychohistory, to be precise. We are talking about

Blair Brandt

BlairBrandt

All of the conspiracy theories about Trump not conceding must end. It’s over. He acknowledged a peaceful transfer of power over the next 10 days. Pence is attending the inauguration.

Speculator

TheSpeculator0

just finished this book over christmas/nye, would recommend. Also as much as the mathematical kelly stuff is interesting, most of the effort of Thorp and co was on actually finding

Ruti Levy רותי לוי

RuTi_L

1\4 In 1975, Jacob Ziv and Abraham Lempel, two Israeli scientists, sat down to solve a mathematical problem. They ended up solving a fundamental problem in CS and paved the

Noé de Rancourt

NdeRancourt

In philosophy of math, we often present platonicism and formalism as the two only and opposite views about the meaning of truth. I think that there is (at least) a

Sridhar Vembu

svembu

1/ Just because I drive a car and have driven it for a long time does not give me any particular insight on how to build one. Building requires a

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