Follow Regression to the Mean Girls on [Apple Podcasts], [Spotify], or wherever you love to listen!⁠Lucy D'Agostino McGowan⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Sarah Lotspeich⁠⁠ return with a data-driven side quest into the TV show Severance. Lucy analyzes whether Milchick really uses more complicated language than his colleagues.Check out the full analysis here: ⁠⁠regressiontothemeangirls.com⁠⁠Links to content we chat about on the episode:⁠⁠Lucy's Severance data R package [mdr]⁠⁠⁠⁠Lucy's

In the sixth episode of On a Tangent’s second season, Carlo talks to Malthe Mejlsted from Copenhagen about his time in Denmark, his participation in mathematics Olympiads, camps, and other science programmes, and what these experiences taught him. As a PhD student under Professor Wilhelm Winter, Malthe is now investigating operator algebras.

Christine Zhang (New York Times) joins ⁠⁠Sarah Lotspeich⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Lucy D'Agostino McGowan⁠⁠⁠ with a data-driven side quest into the TV show Law and Order. Check out the full analysis here: ⁠⁠regressiontothemeangirls.com⁠⁠Links to content we chat about on the episode:Wrong Number newsletterThe Speed of Justice, According to Law & OrderFollow along on instagram: @regressiontothemeangirls

In this episode of "In the Interim…", Dr. Scott Berry examines three recent health-research headlines through a statistician's lens: an Adventist Health Study-2 analysis claiming eggs reduce Alzheimer's risk, an Emory University trial on high-dose vitamin D and cognition (Zhao et al.), and a British Medical Journal study led by Dr. Daniel Danishvar (Harvard, Boston University) reporting that 25 to 97 percent of deceased NFL players showed evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)

Launching a fintech product carries a reputation for being slow, expensive, and buried in regulatory complexity — but that reputation is increasingly outdated. This episode of DEV.co examines why white label software has become the default starting point for serious fintech entrants in 2025, drawing on the full DEV.co guide to white label fintech software to break down the model, its advantages, and the pitfalls that catch founders off guard.Here's what the episode covers: What white

Number of the Day - "9" This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios. Check out our other podcasts there! Sources Number sequence definitions come from the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS). Historical material is adapted from Wikipedia, used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence. Minor planet details come from the NASA/JPL Small-Body Database. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you've ever visited a hospital emergency department, chances are you've experienced one of its most persistent challenges: waiting. For hospitals, reducing those wait times can seem like a capacity problem. More patients require more beds, more staff or more space, right? But what if one of the solutions is simply making better decisions about how the resources already available are used? Joining me today is Agni Orfanoudaki, Oxford University, to share new research on a data-driven

Descend into the deep ocean to meet Magnapinna, the bigfin squid—a ghostly cephalopod with enormous fins and extraordinary elbowed filaments stretching up to 20 feet. Explore how remotely operated vehicles revealed its true anatomy, why its passive “sink fishing” strategy suits a food-poor abyss, and what this elusive animal says about the mysteries still hidden in the deep. Note: This podcast was AI-generated, and sometimes AI can make mistakes. Please double-check any critical ...

Number of the Day - "8"This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios. Check out our other podcasts there! Sources Number sequence definitions come from the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS). Historical material is adapted from Wikipedia, used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence. Minor planet details come from the NASA/JPL Small-Body Database. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We explore the shift from clumsy pixel-by-pixel AI computer control to hybrid agent frameworks that use APIs, MCP, and real-time code execution. Learn why extended-reasoning models can struggle with graphical interfaces, how direct system access improves speed and security, and what human-AI-native operating systems could make possible. Note: This podcast was AI-generated, and sometimes AI can make mistakes. Please double-check any critical information. Sponsored by Embersilk LLC

Every business has a load-bearing spreadsheet. It lives between four other tools, nobody fully trusts it, and it exists because the off-the-shelf software never quite fit the shape of the actual work. This episode of Development explores what that pattern reveals — and what it takes to build custom internal tools that teams genuinely keep using, long after the initial rollout. The episode digs into what separates tools that stick from tools that quietly get routed around, covering: The

Number of the Day - "7" This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios. Check out our other podcasts there! Sources Number sequence definitions come from the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS). Historical material is adapted from Wikipedia, used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence. Minor planet details come from the NASA/JPL Small-Body Database. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

OpenAI has announced that an advanced internal AI system successfully resolved the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem by proving that fluid dynamics can develop a singularity in finite time. This breakthrough was achieved using a multiagent system of 10,000 concurrent agents that utilized tools and cross-pollination of ideas to formulate an analytical proof and a Lean formalized verification. By demonstrating that smooth motion can lead to infinite speeds, the research clarifies a 90-ye...

Two independent measurements seem to disagree on the Universe’s expansion: a precise early‑Universe hint from the cosmic microwave background vs. a faster late‑Universe value from the distance ladder. In this deep dive, we trace the plans to resolve the tension using JWST data, massive galaxy surveys, and gravitational‑wave standard sirens. We explore proposed fixes like early dark energy and late‑time dynamics, the new tensions they spark (like S8), and why upcoming observatories—Rubin, Eucl...

OpenAI opened up the system that powers its own coding agent, Codex, for anyone to build on. Spending per employee among the heaviest AI users fell almost ten percent last month, even as token prices kept falling. More power to build, less appetite to pay for it. We go through what OpenAI's new Agents API actually hands developers, why buyers are picking cheaper models over frontier ones, and how Cloudflare quietly upgraded the internet's encryption without anyone lifting a finger. This is a public

Most proposal teams have a compliance matrix. Fewer have one that actually does anything. This episode of Development tackles the gap between a compliance matrix as a formality and a compliance matrix as a genuine production tool — walking through the mechanics, the common failure points, and the specific habits that separate teams who catch requirement gaps early from teams who find them in evaluation notices.Here's what the episode covers: The "shred" step: Why you must copy exact