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Merry Christmas!
As Tiny Tim said so well: A Merry Christmas to us all. God bless us every one. You readers are the best present I could get. A most sincere thanks…
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Reason’s Greetings!, Say Brights to Supers
Stream: Reason's Greetings!, Say Brights to Supers Our Summa Contra Gentiles series continues after New Years. The email salutation began "Reason's Greetings". It continued: Friends. Family. Food. Festivity. What else?…
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In A Democracy, Everything Is Political. Even Science.
Stream: On the Left, Bad Politics Leads to Bad Science (Insanity & Doom updates resume after Christmas.) "All I Want For Christmas Is Full Communism Now". Not I. It is…
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Any Of You Still Listen To Shortwave?
If you don't know what shortwave is, then you don't listen to it. You probability don't even own a radio that tunes to the shortwave bands (which are above the…
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Update: That Silly Asylum Applications & Temperature Fluctuations Paper
Update at bottom. I was asked by Axel Bojanowski, Science Editor at Der Spiegel to examine the Science paper "Asylum applications respond to temperature fluctuations" by Anouch Missirian and Wolfram…
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Cliodynamics And The Lack Of A Hari Seldon
There will be no Hari Seldon. But there will be prophets. If there is no Seldon, there will be no psychohistory, the fictional astonishingly accurate mathematical science predicting gross human…
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Free Data Science Class: Predictive Case Study 1, Part VI
Review! This class is neither frequentist nor Bayesian nor machine learning in theory. It is pure probability, and unlike any other class available. And for the right price! Last time…
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The Sixth and Best Way to Fix Statistics
Nature had Five ways to fix statistics, which asked a few folks, some of whom are our friends, how to shore up the sandy soil of statistics. Thanks to Al…
