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Comment #20941100
Alibaba? They have a bunch of X-ray machines, the smallest one: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/New-Arrival-Portable-...
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Comment #20941070
How can it get an image without a detector or something on the other side of the object? Is it just capturing reflected back x-rays?
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Comment #20939788
Well, if this stuff was easy to understand, we wouldn't be having a crisis because of it, would we? Probability is highly non-intuitive (kind of like quantum mechanics), so most pe…
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Comment #20939135
Yes, it answers your question. What you call "p-value" is a sample from the "p-value distribution" of your experiment. Taleb shows you can sample a p-value of 0.05 when the actual …
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Comment #20939015
Nasim Taleb wrote extensively on this. > P-values are shown to be extremely skewed and volatile, regardless of the sample size n, and vary greatly across repetitions of exactly sam…