Posted inFun
Fireworks!
This post originally ran 4 July 2014. The first one that says "grand finale" gets it. It's over when it's over. I spent a year of boyhood in Chicago, 1975.…
Posted inStatistics
Researchers Forced To Teach Algorithms To Reject Hate Facts
As we learned before, hate facts "are true statements about reality that our elites demand remain occult and unuttered." The problem is that hate facts will routinely pop up in…
Posted inCulture
Another Example Proving Academia Is Worse Than You Thought
This is a slow week, so I do not now want to continue the discussion of what the best replacement of academia is. That is needs replacing I take as…
Posted inPhilosophy SAMT
Summary Against Modern Thought: Ultimate Happiness Comes In Contemplation Of God
Previous post. Finally, the grand (and not unexpected) reveal! That the ultimate felicity of man consists in the contemplation of God 1 So, if the ultimate felicity of man does…
Posted inCulture
Insanity & Doom Update XLI
Item Great writers are found with an open mind I'd been suffering under the misguided illusion that the purpose of mainstream publishers like Penguin Random House was to sell and…
Posted inStatistics
Statistics Vs. Artificial Intelligence
https://twitter.com/drewconway/status/1010137695664951297 This meme which heads today's post (see discussion under this tweet a modification of an original cartoon) expresses the true distinction between statistics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Which…
Posted inClass Statistics
Making Random Draws Is Nuts
Let's do a little science experiment together. Go into the closet and pull out an opaque sack or bag. Anything will do, even a large sock. If you can fit…
Posted inCulture
Notes On Our (So Far) Cold Civil War
The left did not expect to lose to Drumpf. Some left government officials did their best to keep it from happening. But nobody bats a thousand. The left's cry-ins and…
