Statistical Odds & Ends

Brainteaser about points belonging to the same semicircular arc

Brainteaser about expected number of rolls

Downloading datasets from Our World in Data in R

What is the fused lasso?

What is the Cauchy combination test?

An interesting result involving the Cauchy distribution

Converting a uniform distribution into a Cauchy distribution

What is Adam and AdamW?

What is elastic weight consolidation?

A simple probabilistic algorithm for estimating the number of distinct elements in a data stream