Survival of the flattest — on

Probably most of you are familiar with the problem of overfitting in machine learning. This problem occurs when the model le...

Herd Immunity — on

"If we imagine the action of a vaccine not just in terms of how...

How long should you wait? — on

"The really unusual day would be one where nothing unusual happens." -Persi Diaconis This quote above is from the very ...

Stosszahlansatz — on

"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable" -Mark Twain All theories of microscopic physics are g...

Turing Patterns — on

There are times that you discover that someone has actually named the phenomenon you have been thinking about for a significant amo...

Definition of well defined — on

This is not a post on mathematics, statistical physics, nor evolutionary biology. So there won't be any equations or theorems in...