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.…

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…

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…

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…

The tweet above is from Human Progress. Thanks to @WrathofGnon for the tip. It shows the number of people by region who live "in poverty". It is a stacked line…

Mini-paper out in JAMA by Matt Vassar and pals: "Evaluation of Lowering the P Value Threshold for Statistical Significance From .05 to .005 in Previously Published Randomized Clinical Trials in…