Mongolia is being dug up and sold to China
Source: theeconomist
The moral of this story: No matter how accurate our drug test, we shouldn’t bother to run it unless we have probable cause.
Similar constraints apply to any population-wide surveillance: If you’re searching for something sufficiently rare (criminals, terrorists, strange diseases), it doesn’t matter how good your tests are. If you test everyone, you’ll drown under thousands of false positives
Bayes’ rule in Haskell, or why drug tests don’t work
It’s an article on programming, but there’s some pretty relevant math there. Also, good support for why our math education needs to focus far more on statistics than calculus.
Source: randomhacks.net
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In fact, it is now usually cheaper to just try something than to sit around and try to figure out whether to try something. The product map is now often more complex and more expensive to create than trying to figure it out as you go. The compass has replaced the map, and “rough consensus and running code” has become the fundamental philosophy for the so-called lean start-up movement.
Innovating by the Seat of Our Pants
Joi Ito on the new face of innovation, I love this brave new world.
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Source: The New York Times
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