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Who Still Listens To AM Radio?
The cold and snow, and now the wood stove, still has me a tad behind. So something fun. I saw this tweet and was sad: At first I thought there…
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Scientists Invent New Name For Models: Digital Twins
Cracker Barrel infamously tried changing their homey friendly warm and folksy logo to a stripped down dull almost monotone cool version. To remain "current". They also, reports say, redid the…
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What Science Says About Making Medication Mandatory
A doctor, a physician, has decided that the drug Profital™ if taken prophylactically will prevent the Screaming Willies most of the time, and that the drug's side effects won't scar…
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What A Winter
Your uncle sergeant Briggs is forced to go AWOL the rest of this week. This has been some kind of winter. A lot of joyous whitestuff, and plenty of wind.…
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FDA Goes Bayes: It Should Have Gone Probability
The FDA should have gone probability. But they came close. They went Bayes. So announced FDA boss Marty Makar last week. Here's the document "Use of Bayesian Methodology in Clinical…
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Class 76: That’s Not Noise. That’s Signal!
The signal+noise notion of time series is usually wrong. Most time series are pure signal, no noise. And since they are accidental series, models of them are correlational not causal.…
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AI: The Earth Is Spinning Faster & Slower (Because “Climate Change”)
Here is a headline from Forbes 4 August 2022: Here, five short days later, is a headline from The Independent 9 August 2022: It is possible to reconcile these two…
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Confirmation Bias In The Minneapolis Shooting
The clearest, or at least funniest, example of confirmation bias in recent politics was when New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich tweeted "Given the committees that I have served on, I…
