Statistically Insignificant
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Statistically Insignificant is a glorified slide show about statistics in everyday life.
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Unlocked BE20: What statistics are in nutritional info?
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BE20: Nutritional Info
There's more ideology than you might think in food labelling.References:Food Standards Australia New Zealand (2023) Build Recipe and NIP tool, https://npc.fo...
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July 24, 2024 at 9:26 AM
Unlocked BE21: what would it mean to 'decolonise' maths?
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Unlocked BE21: Decolonising Maths
The history of maths and stats is deeply political, and deeply entwined with both empire and the resistance to it.References:Padmanabhan, T., Padmanabhan, V....
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May 18, 2024 at 10:17 AM
HELLO YES it has been a while. I have unlocked bonus episode 18 where we talk about simulation studies: when and why they're worth using.
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March 12, 2024 at 12:26 PM
An update: Bart is too busy to continue, PhDs are hard, and we're going on haitus for a bit until the PhD is done.
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Update and PhD hiatus | Statistically Insignificant
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January 30, 2024 at 8:41 AM
December treat rather than a free episode, here's the unlocked bonus on 'artificial intelligence'.
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Unlocked BE19: "Artificial intelligence" is neither
"AI" is going to make our lives worse and we shouldn't let it.References:acollierastro (2023) 'AI does not exist but it will ruin everythign anyway', https:/...
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December 30, 2023 at 9:25 AM
BE21 out now! www.patreon.com/posts/be21-m...
'Decolonising' is a popular buzz-word in tertiary education, so we talk about what that would look like if you did it seriously for maths.
BE21: Decolonising Maths | Statistically Insignificant
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December 12, 2023 at 1:39 PM
Prepping for the bonus to record on Friday.
November 29, 2023 at 11:13 AM
E44 out now! Find out about the curative effects of mutual aid and why conservatives are wrong about Kant.
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E44 Mutual Aid II: Good for the soul
Our second of three episodes on the role of mutual aid in the leftist political project. This time we talk about why mutual aid is good for the people doing ...
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November 26, 2023 at 8:02 AM
BE20 out now!
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What's in your food anyway?
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BE20: Nutrition Info | Statistically Insignificant
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October 31, 2023 at 1:28 PM
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“There’s got to be close attention paid to [ensure] analogic rules for AI platforms are literally written to iron out biases and unfairness.”
How will they do that? Fuck knows. Algorithms should not make decisions about people.
October 23, 2023 at 1:48 AM
E43 out now: youtu.be/v5rBeZbBLLI
First of our three part series about mutual aid. This one's about how to do it, we get more political in the next two. The series is audio-only.
E43: Mutual Aid Logistics
First of a three part series about mutual aid. This episode deals with the logistics of managing mutual aid stuff, particularly around mutual aid funds that ...
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October 4, 2023 at 2:40 PM
Unlocked BE17: youtu.be/vzWKcSWoYBU
We've had to reschedule five times in just over a week and Dean's going away so my grand plan to have an on time free episode this month evapourated.
Here's an unlocked bonus, and the hope that we can wrangle recording two frees and a bonus in October.
Unlocked BE17: Line Goes...??
From Malthus to Marx, at the heart of politics and ideology is the relationship between a population and the available resources. Let's get mathematical abou...
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September 29, 2023 at 7:04 AM
BE19 out now:
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It's the AI episode, about how such algorithms are neither artificial, nor intelligent.
BE19: "Artificial intelligence" is neither | Patreon
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September 26, 2023 at 3:31 PM
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?E???: One Must Imagine Duchamp Laughing out now!
This is an experiment in what counts as art and you are invited to participate.
?E???: One Must Imagine Duchamp Laughing
Prompt: takes in This words consciousness world is a of contribution refer artists. he the Rudolf his being realization esthetic more I other coefficient co...
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September 23, 2023 at 5:48 AM
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August bonus is out! When is a simulation study worth doing?
BE18: Simulation Studies | Patreon
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September 1, 2023 at 11:41 AM
E42 out now:
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Are carbon offsets and carbon credits anything but a scam?
E42: Carbon Credits Ft. Calvin Norm
If a cow farts in a field and there's a techbro with a box to catch it, does it really produce greenhouse gases?References:Chay, F., Badgley, G., Martin, K.,...
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August 20, 2023 at 5:21 PM
My research is intensifying and we're coming back into teaching so to preserve my sanity we're swapping to a monthly release schedule for the free episodes rather than every two weeks. We'll do one free and one bonus per month.
July 25, 2023 at 5:38 AM
E41 is out: https://youtu.be/ztSt_oG5ulQ
We look at classifications of fatness, from the bad that arise out of BMI, to the empowering that fat people have built to describe their own experience.
July 8, 2023 at 2:00 PM
BE17 out now:
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From Malthus to Marx, at the heart of politics and ideology is the relationship between a population and the available resources. Let's get mathematical about it.
Just a moment...
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July 1, 2023 at 1:45 PM