Retired physicist, after a career in machine learning & stats mostly for cancer drug discovery. Now blogging about stats in the news.
Avatar: convergence basins in the complex plane of Newton's algorithm searching for the cube roots of unity. (After a NYT column by
Steven Strogatz (npub14g7…ez0v), long ago.)
Header: Quote from GK Chesterton, London Daily News, 1905-Aug-16 on epistemic humility and the ability to say "I am wrong" as the foundation of idealism.
#statistics #physics #r
Blog:
https://www.someweekendreading.blog/BlueSky: @weekend-editor.bsky.social
Email: SomeWeekendReadingEditor@gmail.com
Member: Locally Flat Earth Society
Published at
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