Mastodawn

A concept that has not caught on, I don't know of anywhere that it has especially not in the land of the war on drugs, is that #addiction is a #disease completely unassociated with drugs. It might end up being #correlated with #drug addiction, but it is an #illness that works with lots of paradigms.

A.Stringer Jun 18, 2025

"If someone just compares the raw numbers of miscarriages in #vaccinated and #unvaccinated #women, they are missing a crucial source of #bias. Specifically, some factors – like pregnancy history and underlying health – may influence both the chances of getting vaccinated and the chances of miscarriage. Just because the two are #correlated, it doesn’t mean one is causing the other."

https://kucharski.substack.com/p/when-the-underlying-data-doesnt-speak

#VaccinesWork
#USpol
#UShealth
#RFKjr
#publichealth
#dataanalysis
#criticalthinking

When the underlying data doesn't speak for itself

How 'results' about vaccines aren't always quite what they seem

Understanding the unseen

Wizards Anonymous Nov 9, 2024

#Misinformed #immigration #crime #economy #correlated #2024 #uselection #trump #republicans #democrats

acemaxx Dec 6, 2023

#Bitcoin #Nasdaq, for years until a brief period in the middle of 2023, the two were closely #correlated, tending to rise and fall on sentiment toward the #tech sector. That trend is breaking down again, chart @JohnAuthers https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/AT2bBytfUHQ/john-authers

John Authers - Bloomberg

John Authers is a senior editor for markets and Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former chief markets commentator at the Financial Times, he is author of “The Fearful Rise of Markets.”

Bloomberg.com

New Submissions to TMLR May 22, 2023

Generalized Information Bottleneck for Gaussian Variables

https://openreview.net/forum?id=SKa0gggXIe

#correlated #gaussian #correlation

Generalized Information Bottleneck for Gaussian Variables

The information bottleneck (IB) method offers an attractive framework for understanding representation learning, however its applications are often limited by its computational intractability....

OpenReview

fern is dead Apr 7, 2017

Just built this on the #Fondue6 server - a microwave beam system to connect the floating islands in the distance to our main system.