Hersteria: soy-infused hyper-sensitive effeminate hysteria. I was driving in southern Florida (to see my folks) and the only English-language talk station I could pick up that wasn’t a form of entertainment (like […]
The Supreme Court Should Have Allowed ALL Free Association
You have heard that SCOTUS struck down, in a weak way, Affirmative Action at universities, the systemic pandering to blacks and other people “of color”. (PDF of ruling.) This is conditional good […]
Paul Ehrlich Confirms Science’s Negative Expansion Team Effect & Peer Review
Modern science wisdom from Paul R. Ehrlich: 60 Minutes extinction story has brought the usual right-wing out in force. If I'm always wrong so is science, since my work is always peer-reviewed, […]
Meet The Experts Defining Official Disinformation & Official Truths
We told you this was happening when it was happening. Not everybody believed it; indeed, most (and here I exclude regular readers) did not. And, worse, most still do not, and never […]
Combinatorial Explosion: Theory Is Worse Than You Thought
A lot of kids have alphabet blocks. Twenty six wooden squares with the letters of the alphabet on them. One way to arrange them is just like in the song, “A B […]
Researcher In AI Responds To Criticisms
I received this thoughtful, and may I say highly accurate, email from reader EN, which I include in full below. I removed the age and name to protect EN’s identity. I also […]
The Conceit of AI
It helps every time you hear “AI” to think “statistical model”. Because, of course, that’s what AI is. Statistical models layered with clever data processing, that is. Curve fitting. Saying “statistical model” […]
Emergence Comes From Nowhere, Does Nothing, Goes Nowhere, But Still Becomes Theory
We return to reviewing Sabine Hossenfelder’s, a.k.a. Old Hoss’s, new book Existential Physics. First part (many worlds), second part (entropy). If you knew all there is to know about hydrogen alone, and […]
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