Finding the Hardest Spelling Bee Puzzle
christopherwolfram.com/projects/spelling-bee/The Spelling Bee is a word puzzle published daily by The New York Times. The rules are very simple, which got me thinking about generating puzzles automatically. In this project, I created a metric for measuring the approximate difficulty of Spelling Bee puzzles, which I used to study the space of all Spelling Bees. In particular, I found the easiest and hardest puzzles, and also looked at how the subset of human curated puzzles published by The New York Times fit into the broader space.
Histogram vs eCDF - Marc's Blog
brooker.co.za/blog/2022/09/02/ecdf.htmlIt's trivial to transform an eCDF into a histogram, by bucketing up first differences (fn+1 - fn). You can't go from the histogram to the eCDF so easily in general, because bucketing loses data.
Reporting bias makes homeopathy trials look like homeopathy works | Ars Technica
arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/reporting-bias-makes-homeopathy-trials-look-like-they-work/When clinical trials are registered in advance, homeopathy doesn't seem to work.
What is A/A Testing, and Why Should Marketers Care?
instapage.com/blog/what-is-aa-testingAre your A/B testing results entirely accurate? Learn why A/A testing can be beneficial, the pros and cons, and how to avoid false positive test results.
The Tyranny of Metrics by Jerry Z. Muller
goodreads.com/book/show/36644895-the-tyranny-of-metricsThe Tyranny of Metrics book. Read 120 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. How the obsession with quantifying human performance threat...
Violence in Blue | Patrick Ball | Granta Magazine
granta.com/violence-in-blue/‘One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police.’ Patrick Ball measures the undocumented police killings in the United States.