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Poem Codes
This post originally ran 2 September 2009. My favorite joke: Two cannibals are eating a clown and one says to the other, "qbrf guvf gnfgr shaal gb lbh?" Ha ha!…
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Gene Editing: What Could Go Wrong?
Headline: Big Tongues and Extra Vertebrae: The Unintended Consequences of Animal Gene Editing: Unintended consequences have included enlarged rabbit tongues and extra pig vertebrae, as bioethicists warn of hubris Scientists…
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Probability Of Abiogenesis? There Isn’t One
Remember before when we agreed nothing has a probability? Bully. So if no thing has a probability, neither does abiogenesis, since abiogenesis is a thing. Since abiogenesis is a thing…
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Strong AI From Ping Pong Balls
https://twitter.com/ThingsWork/status/1051219022988173312 If you can't see the tweet above, click here. Practitioners of Strong AI believe that if we string enough of these ping-pong (or marble) machines together, rationality will emerge.…
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Ladies & Gentlemen, We Are Losing
There are many stories, but this one is as good as any other. Long-time school teacher Peter Vlaming was fired for saying these words: "Don't let her run into the…
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What Lousy Philosophy Tells Us About Belief In Global Warming
One reason people doubt global-warming-of-doom is because of lousy philosophers like N. Ángel Pinillos (note the New York Times-sophisticated inclusion of the accent). He wrote a piece entitled (in some…
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Biostatisticians: They Asked Us To Lie!
The paper is "Researcher Requests for Inappropriate Analysis and Reporting: A U.S. Survey of Consulting Biostatisticians" by Min Qi Wang, Alice F. Yan, and Ralph V. Katz in Annals of…
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How To Do Predictive Statistics: Part X: Survival Analysis
Query: now that I'm a video master, would people like videos of these lessons? I don't see how they'd help much, but who knows. Let me know below or via…