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Ideas and Data

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Ideas and Data is a personal blog at ideasanddata.wordpress.com about science and philosophy. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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4HN people?
2020–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The linked posts are critical pieces on Nassim Taleb's statistical work and ideas, such as the 2019 post on Taleb. One commenter labels the subject 'Quackery' and links to the post.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

What Hacker News says?

  1. “Quackery” https://ideasanddata.wordpress.com/2019/01/08/nassim-taleb-o...

    Comment linking /2019/01/08/nassim-taleb-on-iq/

    on “Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails by Nassim Nicholas Taleb”
  2. Submitted The Rise and Fall of Science as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted On Trusting Academic Experts as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted How Deadly Is the Corona Virus (Covid-19)? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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