Essays
Occasional writing on science, statistics, and thinking clearly
Essay 03
The Vibe Card
It's very useful to know which mind is responsible for the content of an essay or any intellectual work product. For the first time in history, there's a new category of mind available. I'm proposing a simple transparency standard for human–AI collaboration.
Essay 02
The Basketball Cube
At a cube-themed birthday party, a conversation about a MrBeast video sent me down a rabbit hole: how do hoop height, ball size, and ball weight vary across every level of organized basketball? The answer is more interesting—and more uniform—than I expected.
Essay 01
Correlation Does in Fact Imply Causation
Perhaps the single most-quoted phrase about statistics is that 'correlation does not imply causation.' It's a phrase I've spoken hundreds of times. The thing is, our catchphrase is wrong.