Prawns and Probability
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Noise and collective behaviour
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"You should never do anything random!", Michael Osborne told the room at large for the umpteenth time during my PhD. Mike, now an...
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Thursday, November 1, 2018
Yet more reasons to fund diverse basic science
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Research is an incremental, iterative process. New advances build on those that came before, and open up new lines of research to follow af...
Monday, May 21, 2018
What crosswords can teach us about collective intelligence
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Dear reader: it is only fair to give you advance warning that this post will be a thinly-veiled excuse for me to crow about winning the pr...
Monday, November 6, 2017
Feedback in academic selection
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I recently finished reading Cathy O'Neil's excellent book, 'Weapons of Math Destruction' , which describes how large scale ...
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Saturday, September 16, 2017
Guest post on Academic Life Histories
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I have a new guest post up on the Academic Life Histories blog, detailing how luck and selection biases influence how we perceive success ...
Friday, June 16, 2017
Rethinking Retractions: Rethought
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Four years ago I published what turned out to be one of my most popular blogposts: 'Rethinking Retractions' . In that post I relate...
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Analogues between student learning and machine learning
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Back in 2014 I was trying to make some progress towards my docent (Swedish habilitation) by fulfilling the requirement to undertake form...
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