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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderGlad to see this once more. Some Hacker News Discussions of this: 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13735714 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13760353 I wish they'd cover the sample space/parameter space distinction "harder", as it seems key to the numerous philosophical divides in the foundations of statistics & probability theory, and it seems like a very good candidate for colorful & animated visualization. Also, note that the classic coin flipping example used there right in the beginning serves…
"Don't trust your intuition". This should be the basis for all teaching in statistics and probability. If all goes wrong, it should be the one thing everyone remembers from their statistics education. And yet year after year, everyone is starting with E(X)=sum(x*P(x)) and has no idea what it was about afterwards. With calculus and linear algebra your gut feel is about right no average. You can quickly get a feel for trajectories, acceleration and distances (derivatives and integrals), areas, volumes…
One on a highly-used but lesser-known statistical test: https://www.jwilber.me/permutationtest/
This is a well made website. I love the design and how fast it is. The only problem I have is that you can only seem to link to chapters but not paragraphs in the chapters. You sorta can with appending section1,section2, etc to the url as a hash but it's a bit off.
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- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 1417
- Total comments
- 122
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