BREAKING NEWS! New systematic review of drug trials including statins in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine reveals no reduction in heart attacks or death from lowering LDL. Let’s continue to expose the great cholesterol con. dailymail.co.uk/health/article… press.psprings.co.uk/ebm/july/ebm11…

If you’re a Startup trying to compete with a Megacorp—the 800-pound Gorilla in the space—you need to understand the tax inherent to being a Gorilla And then you need to make that tax work against the Gorilla—with your product's positioning & features A thread on Gorilla taxes👇🏾

Why does chatGPT make up fake academic papers? By now, we know that the chatbot notoriously invents fake academic references. E.g. its answer to the most cited economics paper is completely made-up (see image). But why? And how does it make them? A THREAD (1/n) 🧵

Exotic Metrics: a disease that affects many product teams. Exotic Metrics makes us feel smart, but if you really zoom out and are honest to yourself, it makes us act pretty stupid. It is highly contagious and chronic. Let me explain, with a story. -- Say you are working on a

It seems to me that before "urgently figuring out how to control AI systems much smarter than us" we need to have the beginning of a hint of a design for a system smarter than a house cat. Such a sense of urgency reveals an extremely distorted view of reality. No wonder the more

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The gift that keeps on giving: my infamous coin toss. One optimistic line: "economists call it the ergodicity problem." Perhaps one day it will be true. So far, out of the 500,000 economists on earth, only a handful understand what ergodicity is and why it matters.

"Probability does not exist." This provocative quote is by the Italian statistician and probabilist Bruno de Finetti. It encapsulates the core idea of Subjectivism or Bayesianism, a major school of thought in probability. De Finetti argued that probability is not an objective