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AI Is Coming For You!
The picture heading the post is of an AI machine carrying a small child to a paperclip factory. Why is it every time I read one of these evil-AI-destroys-the-world stories…
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Coronavirus Update II, Stats & Predictions
The code to do the plots yourself is here, a post which should be read for all the caveats, explanations, and so on. The original coronavirus post is here, which…
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The Looming Decarbocalypse — Guest Post by Uncle Mike
It goes without saying, but must be said anyway, that Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is the fundamental building block of all life. Every atom of carbon in your body (we are…
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Three New Coronadoom Books
Three new books on the doom out this past week, one bad, two good. The bad, the very, very bad, outsells the good ten to one. Let's start at the…
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Epidemiologist Fallacy Strikes Again: Miscarriages And Air Pollution Edition
I love air pollution. Smells like progress. Good for you. Nothing healthier. Except smoking. There, now that that's out of the way, let's get to the paper "Air pollution-induced missed…
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The Cult Of The Mask: Coronavirus Update XLIII
IF MASKS WORK, WHY DON'T MASKS WORK? https://twitter.com/duke_canuck/status/1334687960764182528 https://twitter.com/ianmSC/status/1332387371308916737 https://twitter.com/ianmSC/status/1336061330059526144 There are dozens of pictures like this, just are there are dozens upon dozens of formal studies showing masks don't…
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Celebrating The Court’s Common Sense — And Lamenting Its Mistake
The OSHA opinion is here: the "Health" opinion is here. We earlier went through the Fifth Circuit quashing the OSHA mandate. The Court ruled twice yesterday. Once on the OSHA…
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Coronavirus Update XVIII –UPDATES: Ignore Orders, Experts & BS “Spikes” In New Cases
All the good stuff, caveats, code, data sources and explanations are linked, some in Update III, and the most important in Update II, Update IV, Update V, Update VI, Update…
