My defining qualities are curious and stubborn. Creator of spurious correlations: https://xitter.cf/t.co/dPthBYVEhE
Minneapolis, MN
Joined July 2013
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As you can see, @BradyHaran needs to keep up his nerdy-ness on @numberphile if he wants to keep Nebraska safe from fires.
Is it insider trading if @matt_levine shorts Telefónica and then takes Friday off?
Probably not? But Matt should know the SEC is watching. See footnote #30 of the Bitcoin dissent: sec.gov/news/statement/crens…
What happens if you draft an academic research paper every time you find a correlation where p < 0.05? You get a lot of silly papers: tylervigen.com/spurious-scho…
I'm not sure the AI understood what either Duluth or Estonia looks like, but either way I don't want to go there. Air pollution in Duluth correlates with solar power generated in Estonia.
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The connection is clear: babies named walker drive @ODFL_Inc 's stock price. tylervigen.com/spurious/corr…
As the wind turbines spin, they emit tiny, inaudible whispers of encouragement, somehow making everyone feel inexplicably small. /s
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As you can see, Uranus began emitting a rare form of cosmic energy that directly influenced the combustion efficiency of jet fuel in the Netherlands.
It's new, it's improved, it's got AI-generated explanations for why everything correlates. Today I'm launching the new Spurious Correlations: tylervigen.com/spurious-corr…
I just published a wildly over-researched article about a question that has been plaguing me for months: Why is this bridge here? tylervigen.com/the-mystery-o…
I'm immune to the 2038 problem because I store all my dates as UNIX epoch seconds in text blobs.
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I now officially have enough routers, switches, and servers in my house to call it "internet" without connecting to anything else.
It's OK to use gaffer tape to secure an internal hard drive when you don't have enough slots, right?
I am learning a CAD program for a project rn - first time ever that I wish I paid more attention in highschool geometry
Passwordle is surely the best Wordle offshoot: it matches the SHA-256 hash against the hash of the correct password.
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