Links
Some links:
"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks":
http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/
Slides, "Statistics for Hackers" by Jake VanderPlas. Minimal but nice:
https://speakerdeck.com/jakevdp/statistics-for-hackers
"Pedestrian Statistics" by Pavel Panchekha, some more basic Statistics:
https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/stats1.html
Nice posts about bayesian thinking:
http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/08/24/probabilities-without-models/
http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/05/02/if-its-worth-doing-its-worth-doing-with-made-up-statistics/
The very simple inspection paradox:
http://allendowney.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/the-inspection-paradox-is-everywhere.html
This shows the linerized solar system in scale (where the moon diameter is 1 pixel), very good at giving an idea of the distances between planets (something similar for interstellar distances should be created):
http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html