PFun with P Values
Doing some science, and want to know if you might have found something? Or maybe you've just accomplished the scientific equivalent of going fishing and reeling in an old boot? Frequentist p-values ...
2 Syys 201517min
Watson
This machine learning algorithm beat the human champions at Jeopardy. What is... Watson?
25 Elo 201515min
Bayesian Psychics
Come get a little "out there" with us this week, as we use a meta-study of extrasensory perception (or ESP, often used in the same sentence as "psychics") to chat about Bayesian vs. frequentist statis...
18 Elo 201511min
Troll Detection
Ever found yourself wasting time reading online comments from trolls? Of course you have; we've all been there (it's 4 AM but I can't turn off the computer and go to sleep--someone on the internet is...
7 Elo 201512min
Yiddish Translation
Imagine a language that is mostly spoken rather than written, contains many words in other languages, and has relatively little written overlap with English. Now imagine writing a machine-learning-ba...
3 Elo 201512min
Modeling Particles in Atomic Bombs
In a fun historical journey, Katie and Ben explore the history of the Manhattan Project, discuss the difficulties in modeling particle movement in atomic bombs with only punch-card computers and ingen...
6 Heinä 201515min
Random Number Generation
Let's talk about randomness! Although randomness is pervasive throughout the natural world, it's surprisingly difficult to generate random numbers. And even if your numbers look random (but actually a...
19 Kesä 201510min
Electoral Insights (Part 2)
Following up on our last episode about how experiments can be performed in political science, now we explore a high-profile case of an experiment gone wrong. An extremely high-profile paper that was...
9 Kesä 201521min
