Posted inStatistics
Uncertainty Gifs
Accept these silly GIFs in lieu of a post. I'd've had something meatier, but events overtook. First, I spent two days fixing code that was, after all, giving me the…
Posted inStatistics
The Hierarchy Of Models: From Causal (Best) To Statistical (Worst)
There is a hierarchy of models in the sense they offer insight into the thing modeled. The order of importance is: causal, deterministic, probabilistic, statistical. Most models use mixtures of…
Posted inCulture
“All Religions Want Peace”: The Pope, Propaganda & The Expected Lie
There is a kind of propaganda that everybody knows is propaganda, but which involves statements which everybody expects a personage to make. Call it Expected Lies. So that when a…
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Computers Can Find Future Criminals? Why, Computers Can Do Anything!
There is a belief---a persistent and beguiling, yet false belief---that a formula exists that can predict anything. This formula will differ, it is thought, by the thing predicted, and it…
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Jumping Jackers Organize Demonstration For Peace
On a grassy knoll inside Central Park at the People's Climate March, a group of demonstrators, keen on enlightening the world, had set up in plain view (see my original…
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics
Uncertainty (#1 New Release in Statistics) Book Page — Here Are The Details. Update!
This isn't the book page. This is. Or you can buy it here. The page is permanently located at the menu bar at the top of the page, at the…
Posted inPhilosophy SAMT
Summary Against Modern Thought: The Diversity Of Merits & Demerits
See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Some interesting…
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Expectations Of The Majority
https://twitter.com/HonkyTonkJew/status/755023292210122752 Being in the minority, which those of us of a reactionary bent surely are, is advantageous for one reason: we do not assume: we know where we are, we…
