I yap about statistics, sports betting, biostatistics and drug research, and markets. Quintessential Gen X, prone to sarcasm and eyerolling.
Greenville, SC
Joined August 2008
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John, Czar of Chasm retweeted
If the ratio between two circles in a hypocycloid is Pi, then the hypocycloid almost closes up after 113 revolutions (and 355 cusps). This is because Pi is nearly 355/113. Watch it happen here. #pi #piDay2023
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Remember, you want to buy the cheapest house in the richest neighborhood. Not the other way around. – at Miami Beach, FL
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Do it because you want to do it, not because you want to please someone else.
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This formula is so important and so powerful, I Tweet it regularly. It is literally what I attribute my success to in all aspects of my life. A timeless and universal process.
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The oldest wearable tech: a 300 year old Chinese Qing Dynasty abacus ring
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"Things I Learned After 15 Years of Trading"
theimpatienttrader.blogspot.…
This blog post from 7 years ago was by far one of the most popular posts I've ever written... I read it again this morning and most of the things in it are as relevant now, more than ever!
John, Czar of Chasm retweeted
Everybody should know about Berkson’s paradox.
👉 When two positive traits are (spuriously) negatively correlated, in a population *selected on these traits*.
Examples: 1/
“Handsome men are jerks.”
via @anecdatally
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The kid: "Can I get Playboy?" Me: "WHAAAAT?!?!?!" Kid: "Stocks!! Playboy STOCKS!! They just did a merger and started trading again, and it's a good price per share"
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I think our best course of action is going to be supporting institutions that our more aligned with free speech and reason. And we probably need to start focusing on building new education avenues that will outperform CRT curriculum
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Centralized power has destroyed the legislative process. Here’s how many votes were permitted on floor-offered (not prescreened by the speaker) amendments in each year I served in Congress:
2011: 414
2012: 153
2013: 61
2014: 96
2015: 94
2016: 29
2017: 0
2018: 0
2019: 0
2020: 0
John, Czar of Chasm retweeted
When people ask "What are the odds?" they usually mean it rhetorically. They don't really want to know.
John, Czar of Chasm retweeted
SCIENCE:
If you don't make mistakes, you're doing it wrong.
If you don't correct those mistakes, you're doing it really wrong.
If you can't accept that you're mistaken, you're not doing it at all.
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I sometimes think that what we really need to deal with the current crisis is an epic demonologist. – at Edinburgh, Scotland
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Understanding the Fed’s policy tools, post-financial crisis, provides a foundation for understanding actions the central bank is taking amid COVID-19 ow.ly/TrNk50ARTnU
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My Enlightenment fanaticism: Characteristically trenchant commentary (this time, of the petition to the LSA denouncing me) by Scott Aaronson in his indispensable blog. scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=48…
