Let’s pick some low-hanging wisp-pated bug-minded bug-eyed bugman fruit in the form of the “entity” labeled Yuval Noah Hariri. This is not an insult! Hariri himself tells us he is an entity: […]
The Bayesian Metaphor Can Do More Harm Than Good: Update
Quoting from a post on vampires, “In Bayesian inference, you start with some initial beliefs (called ‘Bayesian priors’ or just ‘priors’), and then you ‘update’ them as you receive new evidence.” This […]
Gloom, Despair, Email Spoofing, And Kahan’s Science Literacy Paper
Somebody spoofed my Yahoo email address which I use for ordering, registrations and the like. Sent hundreds of emails to my contact list yesterday. Now I ordinarily run Linux, which you will […]
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