I have been using Feedly for a long time to keep up with various RSS feeds. I tell myself I started using it around the time Google closed Google Reader, but can it really be 9 years? I guess so. In any case, I am done with Feedly. Feedly is getting worse. I started using […]
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25 interesting facts #21
501. Tigers have experienced little evolutionary pressure to evolve green coloration and they appear green to deer (because deer are dichromats) (Fennell et al. 2019) 502. In the United States, Holocaust survivors are more supportive of helping refugees (Wayne and Zhukov 2022) 503. There is a talisman effect in insurance, i.e., consumers who have an […]
Breaking Bad bliver bedre #2
For små ti år siden skrev jeg et indlæg med den pointe, at Breaking Bad bliver bedre over tid. Jeg skrev det pågældende indlæg før serien var afsluttet, og det er derfor på sin plads med en lille (forsinket) opdatering. I nedenstående tabel viser jeg de gennemsnitlige IMDb ratings for de fem sæsoner. Der er […]
Potpourri: Statistics #85
1309. Introduction to Data Science: Data Analysis and Prediction Algorithms with R 1310. K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) Explained 1311. The Ultimate Guide to Deploying a Shiny App on AWS 1312. Controlling for “X”? 1313. The Bias Variance Tradeoff 1314. Double Descent: A Visual Introduction, A Mathematical Explanation 1315. Decision Trees 1316. The Importance of Data Splitting […]
Hvor mange vil stemme på Nye Borgerlige? #11
For seks år siden, den 18. juni 2016, kunne diverse medier rapportere, på baggrund af en meningsmåling, at hver tiende vælger ville stemme på Nye Borgerlige. Den pågældende meningsmåling var foretaget af Voxmeter og fik ikke overraskende en del omtale. Jeg kritiserede dengang meningsmålingen for at være ikke alene af tvivlsom karakter, men også decideret […]