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Has philosophy ever clarified mathematics?

answered Oct 1, 2014 at 16:31

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Unconventional examples of mathematical modelling

answered Aug 15, 2019 at 5:59

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Group theory in machine learning

answered Apr 29, 2015 at 4:17

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James-Stein phenomenon: What does it mean that a James-Stein estimator beats least squares estimator?

answered Apr 11, 2012 at 13:57

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Bayesian statistics for pure mathematicians

answered Jun 21, 2012 at 22:36

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Why is the Fast Fourier Transform efficient?

answered Sep 21, 2011 at 1:17

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Distance metric between two sample distributions (histograms)

answered Jul 26, 2012 at 5:33

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Essays and thoughts on mathematics

answered Oct 5, 2015 at 14:10

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The difference between Principal Components Analysis (PCA) and Factor Analysis (FA)

answered Sep 28, 2010 at 17:39

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When do people actually use the maximum entropy distribution?

answered Dec 1, 2014 at 0:34

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Non-rigorous reasoning in rigorous mathematics

answered Dec 1, 2012 at 1:49

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What would you want to see at the Museum of Mathematics?

answered Dec 26, 2010 at 6:12

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What would you want to see at the Museum of Mathematics?

answered Dec 26, 2010 at 6:19

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Why doesn't Stein effect happen for multinomial distributions?

answered Sep 17, 2010 at 0:24

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Statistical calculations over algebraic structures

answered Jul 17, 2011 at 11:59

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Sampling uniformly from a sphere

answered Feb 7, 2012 at 21:34

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Essays and thoughts on mathematics

answered Oct 5, 2015 at 14:14

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Are all probabilities conditional probabilities?

answered Sep 3, 2011 at 6:54

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Interesting thesis topic on statistical inference that is sufficiently mathematical

answered Jan 16, 2013 at 16:56

3 votes

Strange pattern in rounding errors?

answered Dec 13, 2012 at 14:25

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Geometric interpretation of the average of two independent Cauchy distributions

answered Dec 3, 2014 at 22:10

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Maximum entropy priors in infinite dimensional spaces

answered Oct 15, 2012 at 3:23

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What does it mean to sample a value x* from f(x)?

answered Mar 29, 2012 at 23:05

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Measure of progress towards a proof

answered Feb 18, 2012 at 18:01

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Online math history lectures

answered Oct 3, 2010 at 16:58

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Big ideas and big ways of thinking in statistics?

answered Jul 5, 2018 at 18:53

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Validate Wikipedia formula for Wishart conditioned on a conjugate prior

answered May 9, 2019 at 8:44

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Restate equality between random variables in a numerical stable way

answered May 9 at 15:10

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Estimating a "transition" matrix from data

answered Jan 20, 2020 at 16:06

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Physical interpretation of the Manifold Hypothesis

answered Jan 28, 2020 at 23:06

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Has philosophy ever clarified mathematics?

Unconventional examples of mathematical modelling

Group theory in machine learning

James-Stein phenomenon: What does it mean that a James-Stein estimator beats least squares estimator?

Bayesian statistics for pure mathematicians

Why is the Fast Fourier Transform efficient?

Distance metric between two sample distributions (histograms)

Essays and thoughts on mathematics

The difference between Principal Components Analysis (PCA) and Factor Analysis (FA)

When do people actually use the maximum entropy distribution?

Non-rigorous reasoning in rigorous mathematics

What would you want to see at the Museum of Mathematics?

What would you want to see at the Museum of Mathematics?

Why doesn't Stein effect happen for multinomial distributions?

Statistical calculations over algebraic structures

Sampling uniformly from a sphere

Essays and thoughts on mathematics

Are all probabilities conditional probabilities?

Interesting thesis topic on statistical inference that is sufficiently mathematical

Strange pattern in rounding errors?

Geometric interpretation of the average of two independent Cauchy distributions

Maximum entropy priors in infinite dimensional spaces

What does it mean to sample a value x* from f(x)?

Measure of progress towards a proof

Online math history lectures

Big ideas and big ways of thinking in statistics?

Validate Wikipedia formula for Wishart conditioned on a conjugate prior

Restate equality between random variables in a numerical stable way

Estimating a "transition" matrix from data

Physical interpretation of the Manifold Hypothesis