William M. Briggs

Technical Notes On Destroying Universities From Space With Large Rocks

Headline Students bark in protest to save the trees. Seems Western Michigan University was going to cut down some trees. Students duly went outside and barked. Anything to avoid studying---which…

Statistics

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.…

Statistics

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…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Instantaneous Knowledge of God

Previous post. More clues about how God fattens our intellects. Not through our reason, but by gifts, as it were. THAT THOSE WHO SEE GOD SEE ALL THINGS IN HIM…

Culture

The Week In Doom — Nadless Mark Hamill Edition

Item Lulu and Nana: First genetically modified babies born in China, researcher says How were Lulu's and Nana's genes modified? The inner life of cells is difficult to explain without…

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Woke Nature

It has been deemed as unscientific to say that a person's genitals determines their sex. Genes, too, have been disallowed as scientific evidence. Nature says so, and they are the…

Culture

Who Needs The Temple Mount? — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Who needs that silly Temple Mount? For years, I've held that there were three things needed for the Evangelical Rapturists to get their death-wish. Death for you and me that…

Philosophy

Moral Relativism Is Bogus — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor

Oftentimes moral relativism is defined in more abstract terms and described as the belief that values or principles are "subjective" or "relative" to individuals or cultures. What works for one…

Cookie on More On Monkeys Typing Shakespeare & Why Chance Isn’t EnoughJanuary 17, 2025
Could the figure be reduced through incentives. A raisin drops down a shute when a word is produced? Or will…
gamecockjerry on Register Your Predictions For 2025!January 17, 2025
1. My selection for this year's dead pool is Nancy Pelosi. 2. Trump begins deporting criminal illegal aliens, but falls…
John Pate on England’s Rulers Insist Natives Must Assimilate To “Migrants”January 17, 2025
Given the shenigans around the attempt to engineer The Great Reset by the powers that be I suspect we should…
Brian (bulaore ) on More On Monkeys Typing Shakespeare & Why Chance Isn’t EnoughJanuary 16, 2025
Hey Briggs Some monkies ain't typing at all. What gives? While I'm munching on chicharrones and enjoying the afternoon, I…
Tars Tarkas on Surgeon General Demands Label War Against WineJanuary 16, 2025
In my opinion, 2-3 drinks per day is way beyond light or moderate drinking. IMHO, anyone who drinks literally every…

William M. Briggs

More On Monkeys Typing Shakespeare & Why Chance Isn’t Enough

Surgeon General Demands Label War Against Wine

Class 34: The Excesses & Errors Of Epidemiology III

England’s Rulers Insist Natives Must Assimilate To “Migrants”

Experts: Please Begin Panicking Over Bird Flu. Us: No. Experts: (Sob)

Environmental Experts To Rip Out Trees, Build Solar Electric Plant In Snow Belt To “Save The Environment”

Class 33: The Excesses & Errors Of Epidemiology II

Register Your Predictions For 2025!

Happy New Year!

How Did We Do In Our 2024 Predictions?

Hot New The Science: Kids Are Having Climate Emotions

Merry Christmas!

The Lesson Scientists Never Learn

House Cramnibus Funds New Follow-The-Science Panics

Probability Puzzle Paradox: Which Boxes To Take?

As Woke Falls, What Rises?

Class 32: The Excesses & Errors Of Epidemiology I (All Should Read)

Who’s Better at Playing Doctor, Boys Or Girls?

How The Enlightenment Led To Contraception (And Other Forms of Anti-Natal Behavior)

Science Model Told To Say Masks Work Discovers Masks Work

In Which Feynman Makes A Mistake: Negative Probabilities (Used In AI, QM, Finance)