Statistical paradoxes

Abelson's paradox

Abelson's paradox is an applied statistics paradox identified by Robert P. Abelson. The paradox pertains to a possible paradoxical relationship between the magnitude of the r2 (i.e., coefficient of determination) effect size and its practical meaning. Abelson's example was obtained from the analysis of the r2 of batting average in baseball and skill level. Although batting average is considered among the most significant characteristics necessary for success, the effect size was only a tiny 0.003. (Wikipedia).

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Abel formula

This is one of my all-time favorite differential equation videos!!! :D Here I'm actually using the Wronskian to actually find a nontrivial solution to a second-order differential equation. This is amazing because it brings the concept of the Wronskian back to life! And as they say, you won

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Abel Prize — The story

A short introduction to the story of The Abel Prize, from the story of Niels Henrik Abel, the establishment of the prize in 2003, and the way mathematics impact our everyday lives. The main objective of the Abel Prize is to recognize pioneering scientific achievements in mathematics. The

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Louis Nirenberg Acceptance speech - The Abel Prize

Acceptance speech by Louis Nirenberg from the 2015 Abel Prize Award Ceremony.

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Konstantin Khanin: Between mathematics and physics

Abstract: Over the past few decades we have witnessed an unparalleled process of unification between mathematics and physics. In this talk we shall discuss some of Sinai's seminal results which hugely contributed to this process. Sinai's contributions were based on outstanding new ideas in

From playlist Abel Lectures

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The Primacy of Experiment - Kyle Cranmer

The Universe Speaks in Numbers Physics and mathematics seem to be in a pre-established harmony, as Gottfried Leibniz observed long ago. New ideas generated by mathematical researchers have often proved to be essential to physicists trying to discover the most basic laws of nature. Likewise

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Lec 31 | MIT 7.012 Introduction to Biology, Fall 2004

Molecular Medicine 1 (Prof. Robert A. Weinberg) View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/7-012F04 License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at http://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at http://ocw.mit.edu

From playlist MIT 7.012 Introduction to Biology, Fall 2004

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How to Solve the Liar Paradox

Most paradoxes either stem from the misunderstanding of a topic, or aren't really paradoxes. However, here is a paradox that seems to contradict logic itself. What's going on here? And what does the liar paradox have to do with computer science? #some2

From playlist Summer of Math Exposition 2 videos

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Avi Wigderson: Randomness and pseudorandomness

Abstract: The talk is aimed at a general audience, and no particular background will be assumed. Is the universe inherently deterministic or probabilistic? Perhaps more importantly - can we tell the difference between the two? Humanity has pondered the meaning and utility of randomness fo

From playlist Abel Lectures

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Newcomb's paradox | Famous Math Problems 7 | NJ Wildberger

Newcomb's paradox was first studied by American physicist William Newcomb, and popularized by articles by Robert Nozick and famously Martin Gardner in one of his 1974 Mathematical Games columns in Scientific American. The paradox involves notions of free will, determinism, choice, probabil

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The Computer Science Wizard Book

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Fraternal Orders in America

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David Wolber (University of San Francisco), interviewed at OSCON 2011

Dave Wolber Professor, University of San Francisco David Wolber is a professor of Computer Science at the University of San Francisco. David teaches App Inventor in his "Computing, Robots, and the Web" course at USF. The apps created by his students-- mostly humanities and business majo

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Henri Darmon: Andrew Wiles' marvelous proof

Abstract: Pierre de Fermat famously claimed to have discovered “a truly marvelous proof” of his last theorem, which the margin in his copy of Diophantus' Arithmetica was too narrow to contain. Fermat's proof (if it ever existed!) is probably lost to posterity forever, while Andrew Wiles' p

From playlist Abel Lectures

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The Computer Science Wizard Book

This is the legendary "Wizard Book". It is dedicated to the spirit which lives inside the computer. This book covers the fundamentals of computer programming using Scheme which is a dialect of Lisp. One of the coolest things about this book is that there are lectures online you can watch t

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MIT Milestone Celebration | Welcome

Steve Lerman, Dean for Graduate Students, and Susan Hockfield, President, welcome guests to MIT OpenCourseWare's milestone celebration, and reflect on OpenCourseWare. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at http://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at http://ocw.mit.edu More a

From playlist MIT OpenCourseWare Milestone Celebration

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Gigafactory? How About Microfactory? Arrival Rethinks How an EV is Built

Gigafactory? How About Microfactory? Arrival Rethinks How an EV is Built. Go to https://brilliant.org/Undecided you can sign up for free. And also, the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium membership. In the world of vehicle manufacturing, not just EVs, bigger is usuall

From playlist EV News and Analysis

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MIT's Institutional Decision to do OpenCourseWare

OCWC Global 2011: MIT's Institutional Decision to do OpenCourseWare. Panel with Charles M. Vest, Lawrence S. Bacow, Robert A. Brown, Hal Abelson and Shigeru Miyagawa examining MIT's institutional decision to launch OpenCourseWare. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution

From playlist OCW Consortium Global Conference - May 2011

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Lecture 2B: Compound Data

MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Spring 2005 Instructor: Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Julie Sussman View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/6-001S05 YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE18841CABEA24090 Compound Data Despite t

From playlist MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation, 1986

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'Samurai' by X priest X (Official)

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Problems with the Calculus | Math History | NJ Wildberger

We discuss some of the controversy and debate generated by the 17th century work on Calculus. Newton and Leibniz's ideas were not universally accepted as making sense, despite the impressive, even spectacular achievements that the new theory was able to demonstrate. In this lecture we di

From playlist MathHistory: A course in the History of Mathematics

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