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Highly recommend Stats 110 from Blitzstein. Lectures and textbook are all online https://stat110.hsites.harvard.edu/

>Basically every advanced/"next generation" thing the article touts has fallen flat on its face when applied to real problems Even Arnold's work? FEEC seemed quite promising last t…

"I have largely avoided the second law of thermodynamics, which says that entropy always increases. While fascinating, this is so problematic that a good explanation would require …

No Navier-Stokes? Elasticity?

The book for this course is a fantastic practical introduction to Bayesian statistical modeling. If you've ever been curious about probabilistic programming give it a shot. Also if…

Is there a reason why every price increase is referred to as "inflation" these days? I thought inflation had more to do with debasement of a currency than price fluctuations due to…

Barring some exponential increase in the usability of FPGA tools, I think the mainstreaming of these technologies will forever remain just around the corner. More coarse-grained ar…