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I kept expecting the author to recommend this book, but then he never did...

It seems like blog posts on simple statistical methods like this one land on the front page of HNews a lot more than one would expect.

I think this is called varied practice and that the idea has been around for awhile. The book Make It Stick[1] discusses a study that had 8 year olds toss beanbags at a target. For…

Really nice writeup! I wish more graduate students would blog about their research in this way. Could be a great way to educate the public and convey the importance of government r…

I wonder if they plan to tackle other educational settings in the future (e.g. schools, self-studying individuals, etc). Am also curious to know if the card design happens automati…

I don't think I realized how important default colors/styles are for visualization software until using seaborn. Quickly producing sensible plots in terms of aesthetics should not …

I thought closed form expressions existed for linear regression. Why is gradient descent needed?

Reminds me of the "talking" drums used in West Africa[1]. Low frequency sound can travel distances measured in miles. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_drum

Sounds like a good project for a graduate level computational electromagnetics course. The method used in this app is FDTD, which is pretty easy to understand and implement compare…

"Desirable difficulties" were originally suggested by Robert Bjork, a psychology professor at UCLA. For a short overview, see his website: http://bjorklab.psych.ucla.edu/research.h…