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Artificial intelligence in communication impacts language and social relationships
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One more reason to hate cockroaches
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Can water solve a maze?
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The myth of the alpha wolf
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An aperiodic monotile exists!
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Lord of the Rings–quoting performance wins this year’s ‘Dance Your PhD’ contest
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Breakthrough as eggs made from male mice cells
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Buried deep in the permafrost, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is opening its doors to the world with the launch of a new virtual tour to mark its fifteenth anniversary
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How do we fix and update large language models?
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Do we see reality as it is? | Donald Hoffman
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Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science
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Researchers successfully prevent peanut allergic reactions in mice, blocking onset in its tracks
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The story behind the Packing Chromatic paper
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“What If?” Eleven serious answers to slightly crazy science questions
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This microscope uses touch. Gelsight is a microscope that presses gel into the object of study.
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Scientists use CRISPR to insert an alligator gene into a catfish. Disease kills off 40% of farmed catfish. This gene protects them.
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Researchers look a dinosaur in its remarkably preserved face
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Excessive outbreaks of seaweed are clogging up our waters – now the algae is being harvested alongside farmed crops to create ingredients for cosmetics and food products
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N=1: Single-subject research
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Australian park rangers say 'Toadzilla' could be world's biggest toad
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Expanding the brain. Literally.
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An overview of the substation attack in Moore County, North Carolina in December 2022
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Native Americans—and their genes—traveled back to Siberia, new genomes reveal
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‘Self-healing’ Roman concrete could aid modern construction, study suggests
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Once a millennium alignment of all three norths
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The curious case of Nebraska Man
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Zombie parasites
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A crucial particle physics computer program risks obsolescence
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Making the stinkiest chemical known to man
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Dismantling Sellafield: The epic task of shutting down a nuclear site
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A new way to achieve nuclear fusion: Helion
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US to announce fusion energy ‘breakthrough’
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Listening to podcasts may help satisfy our psychological need for social connection, study finds
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The US government is giving out free wasps
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The elements of change: A grand unified theory of self-help
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Scientists discovered the oldest known DNA and used it to reveal what life was like two million years ago in the northern tip of Greenland
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Finnish research and technology organisation VTT connected the quantum computer HELMI with the pan-European supercomputer LUMI to enable a hybrid service for researchers
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Neuralink is under federal investigation for potential animal-welfare violations amid internal staff complaints that its animal testing is being rushed, causing needless suffering and deaths
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How do fireflies flash in sync? Studies suggest a new answer.
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The story of solar-grade silicon
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US bat species devastated by fungus now listed as endangered
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The turntable paradox: A ball on a spinning turntable won't fly off as you might expect. In fact the ball will have it's own little orbit exactly 2/7th the angular speed of the table. Here's why.
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Can anyone recommend a specific type of statistics course?
I would like to find a good Statistics course to do for myself, and also to recommend to others, down the road ... one that specifically focuses on risk, and the discrepancy between actual...
I would like to find a good Statistics course to do for myself, and also to recommend to others, down the road ... one that specifically focuses on risk, and the discrepancy between actual statistical probability vs humans' intuitive sense of risk.
I recall a quote, which The Interwebs informs me right now, came from Albert A. Bartlett ... "The Greatest Shortcoming of the Human Race Is Man’s Inability To Understand the Exponential Function".
Alternately, Mark Twain popularized (but did not originate) the saying "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics".
That's the kind of course I'm looking for, that focuses on questions like how much should we actually worry about supervolcanoes, asteroid strikes, Covid 2.0, WWIII, Trump getting re-elected, etc.
There are two parts to this. One, people often (naturally, human nature, how our brains are wired to handle Risk) obsess about a short list of risks in life that are overblown, or appear to be more of a concern than they actually are.
The other part is, some things have a very small risk of actually happening, but when considered in conjunction with the potential consequences (asteroid strikes, WWIII, global pandemic), are still worthy of aggressive efforts to prevent ... and people often focus on the first element (statistically unlikely) and dismiss or overlook the second piece (devastating consequences).
Anyway, stuff like that ... ideally an actual, hands-on MOOC-type Statistics course, but even a good youtube video or blog article would suffice.
As usual, thanks in advance.
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The world generates so much data that new unit measurements were created to keep up
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How to speak honeybee
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10,000 brains in a basement: The dark and mysterious origins of Denmark’s psychiatric brain collection
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New evidence indicates that an effort to stamp out disease-carrying insects is working. The key? Mosquitoes genetically engineered to kill off their own kind.
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The world depends on this government warehouse's collection of strange Standard Reference Materials. They're not cheap.
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10,000 brains in a basement – the dark and mysterious origins of Denmark's psychiatric brain collection
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