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farhanhubbletoday at 3:44 PM1 replyview on HN

I loved his Statistics for Hackers talk: https://speakerdeck.com/pycon2016/jake-vanderplas-statistics...


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yboristoday at 7:20 PM

Amazing Thank you for sharing.

Reminds me of how thinking using frequencies rather than computing probabilities is easier and can avoid errors (e.g. a 99% accurate test being positive does not mean 99% likelihood of having disease for a disease with a 1/10,000 prevalence in population).