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Chasing truth weekly in the service of incremental self-improvement.

  1. Book review: The Information

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    Book review: The Information

    The Information

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  2. Book review: The Theory That Would Not Die

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    Book review: The Theory That Would Not Die

    Publisher's link for The Theory That Would Not Die by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne

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  3. Book reviews introduction

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    Book reviews introduction

    Nick introduces a new episode type that may end up dominating the feed, at least for the near future.

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  4. S6E11: Are we living in a simulation?

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    S6E11: Are we living in a simulation?

    We wrap the season with a recap of what we've covered and my thoughts about how these ideas are related to a very general way of analyzing data.

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  5. S6E10: Betting with (in)side information

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    S6E10: Betting with (in)side information

    We discuss connections between betting and information theory and how this framework for thinking about how being able to accurately estimate probabilities might apply more generally to decisions that we make.

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  6. S6E9: Information theory

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    S6E9: Information theory

    We discuss basic concepts of information theory as well as some examples of communication processes and compression techniques. The sources for this episode are the following books: https://www.amazon.com/Information-Theory-Tutorial-Introduction-2nd-dp-1739672704/dp/1739672704/ref=dp_ob_title_bk https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Information-Theory-Symbols-Mathematics/dp/0486240614/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1687105608&sr=1-1

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  7. S6E8: Causal inference

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    S6E8: Causal inference

    I discuss the work of Judea Pearl and how it fits in with the other topics we've discussed this season. We get to vilify, yet again, our old friend Ronald Fisher.

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  8. S6E7: Machine learning

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    S6E7: Machine learning

    We compare machine learning to traditional programming and talk about some of the core challenges associated with doing machine learning.

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Chasing truth weekly in the service of incremental self-improvement.

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