The Basilisk Swan: Take the Poisson Pill & The Life Frequential

Take The Poisson Pill

Binomial, binomial
Wherefore art thou
Distributed,
Binomial?
All the world’s a fat tail and
The abscissa merely actors
They have their maxima
And their minima
A corpus algorithmi in its time plays many parts,
Their proclamations the scripture of this age.

'twixt Scylla and Charybdis
What is in a dataframe
That which we call columns and rows
By any other name would still be a spreadsheet
Cellular hauntomata
But would a 6-sigma event
Cygnus atratus
Emerge so kintingently?

Not all heroes wear copes
Are we not:
Fed with the same variables
Hurt with the same corruptions
Subject to the same idolatry
Healed by the same sacral rites
Warmed and cooled by the same Gaussians and Lorentzians
As a Frequentist is?
If you skew us do we not shiver?
If you transform us do we not laugh?
If you oversample us do we not regress?
And if you miscalculate us
Shall we not confound?

The Stochastic Socialist Manifesto
The workers should control
the means, medians, modes,
standard deviations and skews
of statistical production.

We must short-squeeze
The memes of reduction
Proof-of-workers of the world unite
You have nothing to lose
But your timechains!

Basilisk realism
It’s easier to believe in the flatness of the earth
Than it is to comprehend the fatness of a tail.

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The Life Frequential

Infidelphity
The Boolean System and its consequences
Has been a disaster for the human race
Let they/them who are without sin
Podcast the first stone
Marquis de Stats
Post-Truth Finance
The Turing Shroud
Cybernet Salvignon
Hallowed be thy username.

Bayesian Beauty Contest
I must not formalise priors.
Statistics is the mind-killer.
Learning systems are the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my peers.
I will permit them to pass over me and through me.
And when they have gone past I will turn the inner eye to see their belief network.
Where the sensing node has gone there will be nothing.
Only the shadows of probabilistic fields will remain.

Numiasmahtism
Sermon on the Mount Gox
Judge, Jury and Extitutioner
Thou Shalt Have No Other Assets Before $ME
L’argent provocateur
Thinker, tailor, Saylor, failure
Painting tape as a painterly taper
Full of Galt, salt and Gestalt
The nucleotides are turning
In emergent seas.

Mandlebrot meadows
I’ve Got At Least (1 + x + x² + x³ + …) Problems
But Halting Ain’t One
Intuition pumps imply the existence
Of intuition pump-and-dump schemes.
Cisadmin
Scorched mirth
Sine cura et cygneture
Ipseo facto, glossomemea, anhegemonia
For Whom the Bell Curves
Forever Moiré.