Professor teaches bootstrap with a cowboy hat and colored blocks in ML class
GeostatsGuy · x · 2026-09-03
GeostatsGuy shares his 'bootstrap day' teaching ritual: wearing a cowboy hat (a Texas pun on bootstrap), having student volunteers draw colored blocks with replacement to demonstrate uncertainty in proportion estimates, then showing a dashboard of how estimates stabilize with more data or more bootstrap realizations.
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