Jenni Juvonen

Does anyone remember that awkward phase between floppy discs and USB sticks when, if you wanted to hand someone a file offline, you had to physically burn it onto a CD?

#throwback #technology #ancienthistory

I have newfound respect for people who make cakes that look like boots or bathroom sinks or bowls of ramen, because I can barely make a cake that looks like cake.

#cake #isitcake #birthday

YouTube video by CGP Grey How to Become Pope

Once again this masterpiece by #cgpgrey becomes briefly relevant.

youtu.be/kF8I_r9XT7A?...

#howto #pope

Yesterday, I impressed someone.

I wanted to guess his country of origin based on just his first name, which was vaguely Latin.

I said: "Statistically, you're from Brazil."

He turned out to be a statistician from Brazil.

#Brazil #bayesian #statistics

This (now archived) post from 2011 about OkCupid data. It continues to blow my mind that having the same opinion on horror movies is more predictive of whether two people become a couple than agreeing on religion, sex, or smoking. web.archive.org/web/20110807...

There is a correct answer to "which one came first, the chicken or the egg" but it depends on whether you subscribe to #creationism or #evolution.

#showerthoughts #philosophy #egg