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In Layman's Terms, how does Naive Bayes work? 300 Pararth Shah, Stanford MS CS '15, IIT-Bombay BTech ... Candy Selection On the outskirts of Mumbai, there lived an old Grandma, whose quantitative outlook towards life had earned her the monikerStatistical Granny. She lived al... Read More » Why is too much salt bad? How does salt increase blood pressure? How does salt make body hold water? 140 Robert Frost, Foodie. The body is very good at maintaining osmolarity - which is the amount of solute  per unit volume.  Vasopressin and aldosterone are two hormones that actively control osmola... Read More » What does one mean by "Every base is base 10"? 183 Alon Amit, PhD in Mathematics; Mathcircler. If you work in base seven, you only need to use the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. The next number after 6, which is what we would normally represent by 7, is denoted by "1... Read More » Would an atheist rather die than to be forced to adopt a religion? 327 Barry Hampe, Atheist, writer, pilot, sage (I refun...            "You have got to be kidding!" I was a child atheist. My parents insisted I attend church. They were big. I was little. I went.... Read More » What is the most important thing you have learned about leadership? 528 Garrett Reisman, Former NASA Astronaut I've been meaning to post about leadership for a while now, thanks for asking the question and giving me this opportunity. Here are some lessons that I have learned along ... Read More » What is the rule to the sequence 2, 5, 9, 13, 21, 30, 36, 45? 195 Leon Zhou, MIT math student, Mathcamper To get the next element of the sequence, you add the number of letters in the current element to the current element. 2 = two, which has 3 letters 2 + 3 = 5 = five, which ... Read More » Which is the best (programming) algorithm that you have ever created? 570 Leo Polovets, Caltech CS major, class of 2003. I've got two algorithms that I'm pretty proud of: 1) When I was at LinkedIn, I came up with a faster algorithm to find routes between members. I eventually found out this ... Read More » Should we stop research in physics and focus the scientists and money on climate change instead? 15 Joshua Engel, not a physicist The problem of climate change is, at this point, not a physics problem, or much of a problem that any scientist can solve. The scientists have made their cases conclusively... Read More » What is the strangest food you have ever eaten and did you enjoy it? 237 Stephanie Allen, Trader Fried Scorpion. Which tasted delicious initially, in the sort of fashion that all fried food does, with its crispy greasy awesome. Beyond its batter barrier though, I actua... Read More » What would happen if Justin Bieber marries Miley Cyrus? 330 Aaron Ellis, Either/Or First, we would be looking at a celebrity couple with a net worth of over a quarter-billion dollars.  Not even kidding. They're each worth about $125 mill. Next, the media w...  Read More »