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2024

How You Should Keep Score in Pickup Basketball 2024-08-27
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TLDR: For full court pickup basketball you should play by 2s and 3s. If you’re playing make-it-take-it, you can calculate the expected value of a possession with a geometric series and it turns out 1s …
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Untangling Nassim Taleb's Criticism of that Headline Grabbing Intermittent Fasting Study 2024-05-08
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TLDR: Parts of Taleb’s critique of an, albeit overhyped study on Intermittent Fasting, seem specious. Veritasium recently put out a video on “The Problem With Science Communication” that details how …
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2023

Odds Are You're Using Probabilities to Describe Event Outcomes 2023-11-03
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We grow up learning proportions, percentages, risks, probabilities. You encounter them when a teacher gives a grade on a test or a doctor describes the risk of an illness. On the other hand, we rarely …
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