A framework for crafting storylines in talks: help the audience understand real life impacts, bridge the context to abstract or technical, technical deep dives exist to do something.
Read it!A fascinating visual essay that utilizes the Lempel-Ziv algorithm (which powers GIFs, PNGs, and most archive formats) to analyze if pop songs are becoming more repetitive.
Read it!"Despite this admonition, people are overconfident in claiming correlations to support favored causal interpretations and are surprised by the results of randomized experiments, suggesting that they are biased & systematically underestimate the prevalence of confounds / common-causation."
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