This invited paper (which I forgot to post!) appeared in the festschrift for Hung T. Nguyen, previously at New Mexico State University and now at Chiang Mai University, to celebrate his entry […]
Hung Jury: The Verdict On Uncertainty
Randomization Isn’t Needed — And Can Be Harmful
Had a named person in statistics (Andrew Althouse) ask me about randomization, which he likes, and which I do not. “I want to compare outcomes for a specific patient group getting surgery […]
On True And False Theories
What makes a theory true? Bad question, that. Conflates too easily why a theory is true with our knowledge whether a theory is true. Both are subjects of great interest, but they […]
Darwinian Delusions Discussed Discursively
Let’s watch this: Round table with Stephen Meyer, David Berlinski, and David Gelernter. The occasion was Gelernter’s review of Meyer’s and Berlinski’s anti-Darwin book in Claremont Review “Given up Darwin”. Berlinski showed […]
Researcher In AI Responds To Criticisms
I received this thoughtful, and may I say highly accurate, email from reader EN, which I include in full below. I removed the age and name to protect EN’s identity. I also […]
Science Is Not The Answer: Should We Coerce Covid Drugs Because Science?
I have been asked by several, several times, to start a Substack. I have no idea why clicking on a Substack article is different than clicking here. But this might be like […]
On Demonic Knowledge
Here is a thread worth discussing: Technology and Demons a helios thread pic.twitter.com/73LYraEoFb — heli?s (@helioslogos) May 29, 2021 The main points the gentleman makes are these: “All technology comes from demonic […]
Gödel And The Limits of Rationality
From the conclusion of “Cantor’s Diagonalization Method” by Alexander Kharazishvili (and I’ll assume the reader has some familiarity with Gödel’s famous theorems): Tarski’s theorem leads to Gödel’s first incompleteness theorem. Let Pr […]
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