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> By this metric, we can see that the states where it’s easiest to find housing include Utah (2.83 units per capita), California (2.75), Hawaii (2.57), and Texas (2.57). Overall, i…

California has close to the worst per capita housing supply of any state in the US. From https://www.vox.com/cities-and-urbanism/2018/2/23/17011154/s... : "The state’s population h…

Where are you getting that 90% number from? That doesn't match with any source I'm familiar with. For example, the 2023 statewide homeless study from UCSF ( https://homelessness.uc…

That's a good book. I'd also recommend John Tukey's classic paper "Some Graphic and Semigraphic Displays", https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/tukey Tukey was one of Tufte's mentors.…

One other rule I've found helpful is banking to 45 degrees -- it's an easy way to rmake elationships easier to perceive: http://vis.stanford.edu/files/2006-Banking-InfoVis.pdf

The paper gives the rate of convergence you get with Polynomial interpolants in Chebyshev nodes: > If f has v derivatives, with the vth derivative being of bounded variation V, the…

> There are many techniques to interpolate between a given set of points. Polynomial interpolation can perfectly fit N points with an N-1 degree polynomial, but this approach can b…

> "A reasonable model for the “blowup factor” (actual time divided by estimated time) would be something like a log-normal distribution. Research has shown a power-law distribution…

> "it is estimated that 75% of SF’s homeless are from outside of the city" -- Where are you getting that 75% number from? The latest survey I'm familiar with showed nearly exactly …

To give some context, objective Bayesian inference refers to Bayesian analysis (i.e. integrating over the parameter space) using a prior that is design to represent "minimal inform…