William M. Briggs

If All Models Only Say What They’re Told To Say, Can We Learn From Them? Mask Model Example

From reader Goncalo Dias comes this excellent question: I have just sat through your seminar on (super-)models. [LINK] I have a quick question: if you assume some fluid mechanical properties…

SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Understanding The Trinity V

Previous post. We're coming to the end of the contrary arguments. Next week begins the case for the Defense THAT THERE IS BUT ONE SON IN THE DIVINITY 1 However,…

Culture

Fat Anorexics; Knife-Happy Doctors; Weak Women Warriors; More! — Return Of The Week In Doom

Due to underwhelming demand...the temporary return of The Week In Doom. I have a backlog of doomable material. Each ITEM is post-worthy, but the rate of increase in new items…

Culture

Institutionalized Scientists Angry Amateurs Showing Them Up, Demand They Be Stopped

Crystal Lee of MIT---bio: "I work broadly on topics related to the social and political dimensions of computing, data visualization, and disability. I also conduct ethnographic and computational research on…

Culture

What Sound Does A Duck Make, Doc, When It Calls Men Women?

The story is that a still-sane med student conducted an anonymous interview about how gender madness, a.k.a. gender fiction, a.k.a. emasculated masculinity, a.k.a. funked-up femininity, and so on, has cucked…

Culture

Universities Are Dead: Let’s Bury Their Corpses & Begin Anew

The purposes of a university are to pass on knowledge and to provide a refuge in which to conduct scholarship. That's it, and nothing more. Nowadays scholarship is called "research",…

Statistics

Vexxine Harms , Deaths & Passports; Mask Madness; More! — Coronavirus Update LXX & Heading To Infinity!

BURDEN OF PROOF I remind readers that we skeptics have no burden whatsoever to prove that mask mandates and lockdowns don't work, or even that experimental vaccines don't cause harm.…

Podcast Statistics

Over-Certainties Of Science, Scientists, Experts, Quacks & Their Models

Here is the video I made for that Truth Over Fear Summit that they tried to cancel. Gaze in wonder! Be astonished! Engage your awe engine! All graphics done with…

Brian (bulaoren) on Truly Random Numbers Found?June 15, 2026
Wait...Does this mean that all those non-winning lottery tickets, I've bought over the years, were drawn from non-randomly-generated numbers? I…
McChuck on Truly Random Numbers Found?June 15, 2026
What QM leaves out of their "randomness is fundamental" picture is the state of the entire rest of the universe.…
John M on Climate Change Increases Risk of Even Slower World Cup Games!June 15, 2026
LarryG, I appreciate that sport and game participants can enjoy their favorite activity but that doesn't make the activity entertaining.
JR Ewing on Truly Random Numbers Found?June 15, 2026
I'm not a fan of airport security pantomime. There are a lot of things about it that I don't like,…
LarryG on Climate Change Increases Risk of Even Slower World Cup Games!June 14, 2026
The provincial and parochial attitude of Americans towards soccer perplexes me. It’s a great sport. High school: football, sat on…

William M. Briggs

Truly Random Numbers Found?

Class 91: Try Not To Use the ROC Curve & AUC

Climate Change Increases Risk of Even Slower World Cup Games!

The Ultimate IQ Test: Guessing the Author’s Mind and Escaping the Infinity of Answers

Reader Poll: Shorter or Longer, Frequent or Rarer Posts?

No Model Will Save Us: Pope Leo, the Miserostat, and AI’s Woke Coders

How High an IQ Must A Person Have To Be Executed?

Class 90: Simple (Optimal) Decisions

Shocking Abortion Numbers: Death Distributions Show We’re Living Longer

Blessed Memorial Day; No Class; See You Wednesday

Why There Are (Probably) No UFOs: “Climate Change”

Creating Microbial Monsters To Terrorize Ourselves

Class 89: The Measure Most Modelers Forget: Skill Examples

The Shocking Conclusion of the HR Trilemma!

The HR Trilemma: Which Door Decides Your Fate?

Capital Punishment Deters Crime More Than The Death Penalty

How Experts Use “Calamities” to Find Official Victims & Gain Power

Richard Dawkins, The Big Muscles Fallacy & AI Pachinko

Class 88: The Most Neglected Concept: Skill

The Red-Blue Button Dilemma & Its Surprising Answer

UFO Reports About To Blast Off!

Truly Random Numbers Found?

Class 91: Try Not To Use the ROC Curve & AUC

If All Models Only Say What They’re Told To Say, Can We Learn From Them? Mask Model Example

Summary Against Modern Thought: Understanding The Trinity V

Fat Anorexics; Knife-Happy Doctors; Weak Women Warriors; More! — Return Of The Week In Doom

Institutionalized Scientists Angry Amateurs Showing Them Up, Demand They Be Stopped

What Sound Does A Duck Make, Doc, When It Calls Men Women?

Universities Are Dead: Let’s Bury Their Corpses & Begin Anew

Vexxine Harms , Deaths & Passports; Mask Madness; More! — Coronavirus Update LXX & Heading To Infinity!

Over-Certainties Of Science, Scientists, Experts, Quacks & Their Models

There Is No Culture Without Inequality: Stove 1

Impose Your Beliefs Before They Impose Theirs

Telekinesis: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification

The Physics Of Blessings: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification