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Sneaking Into A Campus Tour
- Patrick "tour-bombed" his son Quinn during a campus tour to watch him decide on colleges.
- Hosts joke about traditions like rubbing (not licking) the E. coli turtle on the quad to illustrate campus rites.
Youthful Boasts And Fisher's Early Work
- The hosts compare youthful achievements: Patrick saw Van Halen; Gregg grew an orange mustache and got kicked out of an honors program.
- They introduce R.A. Fisher as an early achiever who developed ANOVA and ideas behind maximum likelihood in his twenties.
Flip The Probability Question
- Maximum likelihood picks parameter values that make the observed data most probable rather than asking how probable data are given fixed parameters.
- Seeing bus #27 implies the MLE for total buses is 27 because that maximizes the likelihood of observing 27.