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Is this $p$-hacking?
The number of comparisons is going to escalate quickly. If we have four flavors of ice cream, we go from Scenario 1 showing three significant variables in its model outputs to the rest of the scenarios...
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Elliptic curves come to date night
Willa is an economist and Cara is a mathematician, so together they have decided to turn the problem of which game to play into a separate meta-game. Because they both love numbers, Willa and Cara...
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Much Ado About Zero
We see a distinct preference for denying the premise of the measurement rather than accepting a measured value of zero… Much Ado About Zero Anil Venkatesh Adelphi University Act NULLA1 It happened at...
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Lattices, Plane and Not-So-Plane
Suppose this blog’s editor Ursula and I want to create a shared secret to use as a password to access this blog post... Lattices, Plane and Not-So-Plane Courtney Gibbons Hamilton College In January...
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Looking ahead
Tic-tac-toe is a very simple game, which even humans can figure out completely by using elementary reasoning, and yet a computer first approaching it would face these huge numbers… Looking ahead Bill...
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Welcome to the Fold
A natural question in the context of origami mathematics is: What if we make the paper infinitely large? Welcome to the Fold Sara Chari Saint Mary's College of Maryland Adriana Salerno Bates College...
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Payoffs and strategies
It turns out that the game with alternate moves can be converted into a game with just one move... Payoffs and strategies Bill Casselman University of British Columbia Payoffs and strategies In a...
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People and Computers Compared
A variety of experiments related to the Turing test have been carried out, and there are now computer programs that can systematically convince many humans that they are conversing with another...
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Strung Out on Automorphic Forms
An automorphic form is, in the simplest sense, like a trigonometric function. Trigonometric functions are inescapable in both mathematics and physics, so it makes sense that we would see...
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Capturing the Invisible Hopping Rabbit
The problem is similar to search problems in theoretical computer science, where the goal is to systematically locate a hidden target (in this case, the rabbit)... Capturing the Invisible Hopping...
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