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The Wee P Boogie: The Song That’s Sweeping the Nation!
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The Wee P Boogie: The Song That’s Sweeping the Nation!

https://youtu.be/PnW39ywWotc Lyrics [Verse 1]Oh the scientists are publishin', crankin' out those papers fastThey got a tiny pee-value, think they made it at long lastPoint oh five or lower, they shout…
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$7.11 at 7:11 PM on 7/11 at 7/11: What Are The Chances?
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$7.11 at 7:11 PM on 7/11 at 7/11: What Are The Chances?

Let's take something silly and turn it into something shiny. And, in doing so, relearn the invaluable lesson that nothing has a probability. Somebody posted this receipt from a sale…
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Believing In God Makes You Crave Potato Chips, Say Academics
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Believing In God Makes You Crave Potato Chips, Say Academics

Next time you slide a Pringle over your tonsils, blame God. It was your unhealthy attitude to religion that made you crave that Oreo. Your inability to think proper thoughts…
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Musk Doges Deaths: Researchers Say USAID Absence Kills Kills Kills!
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Musk Doges Deaths: Researchers Say USAID Absence Kills Kills Kills!

Some fellow who got rich once he was in office, Ro Khana, claims Elon Musk, who got rich outside office, is responsible for some preposterous number of deaths, something into…
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Class 91: Try Not To Use the ROC Curve & AUC
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Class 91: Try Not To Use the ROC Curve & AUC

Reminder: The Thursday Class is only for those interested in studying uncertainty. I don’t expect all want to read these posts. Pease don’t feel like you must. Yet, I have…
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Class 87: Calibration & Conformal Prediction: Examples
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Class 87: Calibration & Conformal Prediction: Examples

Reminder: The Thursday Class is only for those interested in studying uncertainty. I don’t expect all want to read these posts. So please don’t feel like you must. Yet, I…
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Class 84: Most Important Measure of Model Goodness
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Class 84: Most Important Measure of Model Goodness

Reminder: The Thursday Class is only for those interested in studying uncertainty. I don’t expect all want to read these posts. So please don’t feel like you must. Yet, I…
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FDA Goes Bayes: It Should Have Gone Probability
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FDA Goes Bayes: It Should Have Gone Probability

The FDA should have gone probability. But they came close. They went Bayes. So announced FDA boss Marty Makar last week. Here's the document "Use of Bayesian Methodology in Clinical…
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