Here’s the excellent Steven Strogratz giving an elegant explanation for why the formula for the area of a circle works and explaining the mysteries of… Read More »Pi in a box: Steven Strogratz on squaring the circle
I’ve had a few goes at understanding Bayesian statistics and feel like I haven’t really grasped it. This video from Richard McElreath (lectures accompanying a… Read More »Statistical Rethinking: Richard McElreath on Bayes in the Garden of Forking Data
It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit… Read More »Alfred North Whitehead on abstraction and civilisation
This (the Galton Board) is tremendous. If you haven’t seen it, you must, you must. The first video is great, but if you only have… Read More »Statistics: The Galton Board and more