Hi, everybody. Thank you so much for coming. I always think that I'm going to

prep these, you know, promote them way ahead of time, but I always operate on sort of the

impulse of whenever the spirit moves me to decide to do something. So today I wanted to talk about the title of my spaces is,

what do Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and Joe Rogan have in common?

And actually, I wish there was a way for me to look at what you guys might be writing here,

but maybe in the, I guess there is a chat here that I can look at, but I'm afraid

to touch anything and screw things up, so I'm not going to touch anything.

Maybe in the thread, you can guess what is the single word that I might use that is similar

to those three.

I mean, you could say obviously, oh, they're all male.

You could say they're all rich.

But obviously, that's not what I mean.

So what is there, if there is a singular trait or a set of traits that make them similar to each other, what might that trait be?

And here before I get going, I want to discuss

something from multivariate statistics, which exactly addresses this type of question. So suppose,

for example, you're a politician and you can break up the world into those who voted for you and those who didn't vote for you.

And so now you'd like to identify what are the predictors that discriminate between those who

said yes to you and those who didn't.

Or think about if you're a company.

There are people who never tried your product.

There are people who periodically try your product. There are people who

periodically try your product and there are people who are very much brand loyal to you. And so

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