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Until very recently everything known about the dinosaurs of this period came from only about three hundred specimens representing just sixteen species.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
The only nonintuitive twist with OLS is that the formula takes the square of each residual before adding them all up (which increases the weight given to observations that lie particularly far from the regression line, or the “outliers”).
Naked Statistics Stripping the Dread From the Data
Wheelan, Charles
Your first draft isn’t an unoriginal idea expressed clearly; it’s an original idea expressed poorly, and it is accompanied by your amorphous dissatisfaction, your awareness of the distance between what it says and what you want it to say.
ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
newyorker.com
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