William M. Briggs

Machines Can’t Learn (Universals): The Abacus As Brain Part II

Read Our Intellects Are Not Computers: The Abacus As Brain Part I first. Machines can learn, all right. But they can't learn like us. Machines cannot apprehend universals, ideas of…

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Ross Douthat’s Preferential Option for Climate Catastrophe

Stream: Ross Douthat's Preferential Option for Climate Catastrophe. This article is in answer to Ross Douthat's, a.k.a. Lt Keefer's, column "Neither Hot Nor Cold on Climate" in which he impugned…

Culture

Poll For Christians: When Is Last Time You Heard About Hell In Sermon/Homily?

About my pewsitting youth, I do not recall much. When young, I was too busy snapping the hat holders on the pew backs. While a teen, my acts of rebellion…

Culture

London Murders Open Thread: Updates

Except to note that our Summa Contra Gentiles series is preempted this week, I'll stay out of this. I'd hate to be accused of being mean to throat cutters. What…

Culture

Diversity Is Our Weakness: University Edition Part CDXVII

Here then is the sad but common tale of Alex Southwell, a nom de plume, professor at "Hudson University" (Columbia?). The De-Professionalization of the Academy, from Quillette magazine. Excerpts only.…

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Monsieur le Président Trump: Adieu à Paris!

Stream: Monsieur le Président Trump: Adieu à Paris! So long, fair well, auf weidersehen, goodbye. A typical reaction, this from guy named Matt Stoller, a Fellow at the Open Markets…

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Covfefe Sing-A-Long

Sung to Shaving Cream. Covfefe = cov-fee-fee. The night Donald Trump took to Twitter Elites had a terrible fit Trump warned the world of covfefe And Tweet streams were filled…

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Our Intellects Are Not Computers: The Abacus As Brain Part I

See part II. Pictured above is an abacus. As it looks, it is in the configuration for the number 68,170,000. It has other configurations which represent other numbers. This particular…

Johnno on Vaccine Bullying Is ScientismJanuary 22, 2025
The hersteric is worried about the gains-of-function-science where the more science they can inject into your life, the more money…
Pk on Vaccine Bullying Is ScientismJanuary 22, 2025
The utilitarianism was too evident yesterday in Trump’s presser with the three AI billionaires announcing some new adventure. They claimed…
Cary Cotterman on Vaccine Bullying Is ScientismJanuary 22, 2025
"threatening to erase the gains of science" When the "gains of science" include climate hysteria, trans cultism, vaccine coercion, and…
Paul Murphy on Vaccine Bullying Is ScientismJanuary 22, 2025
Agreed - my own experience is that you can't (or, at least, people I knew while working in hospital IT…
Chaeremon on Class 35: The Grand Scheme: All Of Probability & Uncertainty In 30 MinutesJanuary 22, 2025
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William M. Briggs

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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Hot New The Science: Kids Are Having Climate Emotions

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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)

The Death Of DIE—In University Science

Vaccine Bullying Is Scientism

Machines Can’t Learn (Universals): The Abacus As Brain Part II

Ross Douthat’s Preferential Option for Climate Catastrophe

Poll For Christians: When Is Last Time You Heard About Hell In Sermon/Homily?

London Murders Open Thread: Updates

Diversity Is Our Weakness: University Edition Part CDXVII

Monsieur le Président Trump: Adieu à Paris!

Covfefe Sing-A-Long

Our Intellects Are Not Computers: The Abacus As Brain Part I

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