William M. Briggs

Video: How To Think About Statistics, Figures, And New Ideas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmMBLTz6Pp8 Hard link to the video. This post ran originally on 28 February 2015. Given the quiet weekend, I postponed our Summa Contra Gentiles until next week. It is a…

Culture

Insanity & Doom Update III

Item Canada Introduces 'X' as a Third Sex Category for Passport Holders Starting on Aug. 31, Canadians will have a new way to identify their sex on passports and other…

Class Statistics

Taleb’s Curious Views On Probability — Part III: Ergodicity & All That

Read Part I, Part II Ergodic in probability has a technical definition. Without going into mathematical details (which are fine except possibly when applied), a "sequence" is defined as a…

Culture

Anti-Christian Activists Claim Marco Rubio’s Tweets are “Constitutional Violation”

Stream: Anti-Christian Activists Claim Marco Rubio's Tweets are "Constitutional Violation" The Freedom From Religion Foundation is so upset that Senator Marco Rubio has been tweeting quotations from the Bible, they…

Culture

Would A Secret Society Lie? The Freemasons Part III — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Read Part II What are we to make of this? Who's the idiot here, my friend? Is it Coningsby? Or is it the reader of the novel who fails to…

Class Statistics

Taleb’s Curious Views On Probability — Part II: Skin in the Game

Read Part I It is in one sense fortunate that the mathematical, or rather quantitative, roots of probability began with gambling. Routine gambles are easy to understand, and the calculations…

Class Philosophy Statistics

Taleb’s Curious Views On Probability — Part I: I Say Probability Does Not Exist

Ye Olde Statistician points us to an essay (a book chapter?) by our old pal Nassim Nicholas Taleb called "The Logic of Risk Taking". Let's examine it. You, dear reader,…

Culture

History of the Party’s Removal of Statues & Books

Due to my typical facility with scheduling, meaning I screwed up, this post runs today. Our Summar Contra Gentiles series returns in a week. Stream: Future History of the Party’s…

Johnno on On The Limitations of AI: PredictionsFebruary 1, 2025
The more government can track and observe us, the more data they can feed to the AI, and thus create…
Johnno on Lady Lawyers Become — Gasp! — Science DeniersFebruary 1, 2025
Both these women need to be executed for Resurrection-Denial. How do I know they deny it? The signs of intellectual…
Milton Hathaway on On The Limitations of AI: PredictionsJanuary 31, 2025
I have been experiencing a certain amount of schadenfreude watching a segment of the population squirm over the prospect of…
Rudolph Harrier on On The Limitations of AI: PredictionsJanuary 30, 2025
History of computer science should be mandatory learning. EVERY single advancement in computer science has been accompanied by hype that…
SHAWN E MARSHALL on On The Limitations of AI: PredictionsJanuary 30, 2025
is AI simply plagiarism writ large with supercomputing power linking phrases statistically? machines cannot think.

William M. Briggs

On The Limitations of AI: Predictions

Lady Lawyers Become — Gasp! — Science Deniers

Class 36: Paradox Lost

The Death Of DIE—In University Science

Vaccine Bullying Is Scientism

I Don’t Want Immigrants Is All The Reason I Need

Class 35: The Grand Scheme: All Of Probability & Uncertainty In 30 Minutes

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

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Video: How To Think About Statistics, Figures, And New Ideas

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Taleb’s Curious Views On Probability — Part III: Ergodicity & All That

Anti-Christian Activists Claim Marco Rubio’s Tweets are “Constitutional Violation”

Would A Secret Society Lie? The Freemasons Part III — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Taleb’s Curious Views On Probability — Part II: Skin in the Game

Taleb’s Curious Views On Probability — Part I: I Say Probability Does Not Exist

History of the Party’s Removal of Statues & Books

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