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Three Months of Crowd-Forecasting Covid-19

Note: I posted this on the LessWrong Forum on December 31st 2020. It is somewhat related to this post I made about the project previously….

1. January 20211. January 2021
Categories Science, Statistics

Crowd-Forecasting the Covid-19 Pandemic

Some time ago I started working on a crowd-forecasting app for my PhD (code). The app allows experts and non-experts to make predictions for the…

26. November 202030. November 2020
Categories Science

Replication Markets for Covid-19 Preprints

ReplicationMarkets is launching another project – this time users are asked to predict and bet on the success of preprint papers on Covid-19. The process…

7. November 20209. November 2020
Categories Science

Ten Years of Retraction Watch

Retraction Watch is a watchdog organization that monitors scientific misconduct and, well, watches the retraction of scientific articles. Not only is their work very thorough…

28. October 202028. October 2020
Categories Science

Using CRISPR to Create More Male Offspring

Scientists in California have used CRISPR, a gene editing tool, to engineer the genome of a bull calf. The idea is this: the region on…

15. August 202015. August 2020
Categories Science

How 70 Research Teams Came To Different Conclusions Based on the Same Data

70 research teams were tasked with analyzing the same identical set of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scans. In many areas, they came to…

29. July 202029. July 2020
Categories Science, Society, Politics and History

Is Sex Binary?

content note: discussion of biological sex and a binary classification thereof Update: Maybe one point warrants a bit more clarification: I indeed believe that people…

20. July 202020. July 2020
Categories Health, Science

First Attempts to Reverse Aging in Humans

Most people think of aging as something inevitable. But not all agree and the research into aging and how to reverse it has become more…

12. July 202012. July 2020
Categories Science

The Effect of Sci-Hub on Science

In 2016 Alexandra Elbakyan was listed as one of the top 10 people who mattered in science by Nature. And indeed, her impact on science…

4. July 20204. July 2020
Categories Science, Statistics

A Map of Univariate Distributions

My roommate recently showed me this map of univariate distributions and I think it’s awesome. Here is a snapshot: It visualizes the relationship between different…

30. June 202030. June 2020

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