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Jay Daigle
Personal blog · jaydaigle.net/blogmathphilosophy
Jay Daigle's personal blog at jaydaigle.net covers math and philosophy. Since 2018, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Why isn't there a replication crisis in math?”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on mathematics and statistics, such as an explainer on the Axiom of Choice and a piece on the replication crisis in math. Comments cite these posts without judging them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Jay Daigle is a professor of mathematics at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. In addition to his research in number theory, he brings a mathematical style to thinking about philosophy, politics, social dynamics, and everyday life.
Most-linked posts?
- Why isn't there a replication crisis in math?4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-02-02
- What is the Axiom of Choice?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-07-14
What Hacker News says?
Agreed, this doesn't pass the sniff test at all. Makes me think of this article[1]: > Your estimate will be wrong for a silly, almost tautological reason: if you can only detect large effects, then any effect you detect will be large. If you keep looking for an effect, over and over again, until finally one study gets lucky and sees it, that study will almost necessarily give a wild overestimate of the effect size.…
Comment linking /blog/replication-crisis-math/
on “Coffee drinking linked to lower mortality risk, new study finds”Submitted Why isn't there a replication crisis in math? as a story · 302 points
HN discussion[3] (from OP) directly contradicts this, though I am also very confused why real numbers are somehow unorderable, while the integers are not. https://jaydaigle.net/blog/what-is-the-axiom-of-choice/#fn:3
Comment linking /blog/what-is-the-axiom-of-choice/
on “What is the Axiom of Choice?”Submitted What is the Axiom of Choice? as a story · 182 points
HN discussionSomeone writes up a bunch of tweets Omnicron is a lab leak too: 576 points. Three studies suggest it originated from the Wuhan markets: 28 points. Mmm. This came up recently, and I think it's high relevant to some of the folk posting here: https://jaydaigle.net/blog/replication-crisis-math/ > A lot of psychology results that don’t replicate look a little different from this perspective. Does standing in a power pose…
Comment linking /blog/replication-crisis-math/
on “Wuhan market was epicentre of pandemic’s start, studies suggest”Submitted An Overview of Bayesian Inference (2019) as a story · 121 points
HN discussionSubmitted The SIR Model of Epidemics as a story · 76 points
HN discussionSubmitted An easier approach to partial fractions decomposition as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted Working Backwards as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is the Axiom of Choice? (2021) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is the Axiom of Choice? (2021) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pascal's Wager, Medicine, and the Limits of Formal Reasoning as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Isn't There a Replication Crisis in Math? (2022) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Old Books and the Passage of Time as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Old Books and the Passage of Time as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hypothesis Testing and its Discontents, Part 1: How is it Supposed to Work? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion