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36: Bayes, bias and balance (Charles Kenney)
Episode 37
Thursday, 30 April, 2026

With Charles Kenney, a graduate student in combinatorics, we explore: - what do intense hatred and food allergies have in common - why to be more like a fox than a hedgehog - how to think about biases - the linguistic Rorschach test   Startovač: https://www.startovac.cz/patron/misto-problemu/ FB stránka: https://www.facebook.com/mistoproblemu Web: https://www.mistoproblemu.cz/   Timestamps:   (0:00) introduction (1:41) equalities and inequalities (5:17) the nature of combinatorics (18:11) the Bayes rule (25:56) handling uncertainty and biases (31:43) collaboration and author order (36:37) academia vs. industry (45:00) opportunity cost and habits (51:38) problem solving strategies   Links:   - foxes and hedgehogs: https://www.historyaccess.com/new/isaiah-berlins-hedgehogs-and-foxes/ - Erdős vs Grothendieck: https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2007/04/the_two_cultures_of_mathematic.html

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