Books
EVERYTHING YOU BELIEVE IS WRONG Pre-published in December 2021, but officially in January 2022. Buy it. Errata page: submit typos and mistakes here, thank you. Free first chapter is here.…
Posted inPhilosophy
Are We Special? New Thoughts about the Anthropic Principle — Guest Post by Bob Kurland
Editor's note This post first appeared at Kurland's home site. My criticisms follow. "Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix.…
Posted inStatistics
Number 1 Book In Epistemology & In Logic! Get It While It’s Hot!
It's probably gone by now, but for a little while my new book, Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics, was "#1 New Release in Epistemology" then "#1 New…
Posted inBook review Fun Statistics
The Full Briggs?
Our friend Joseph Moore at Yard Sale of the Mind, a site surely on everybody's list already, whose photograph appears atop this post, wrote It doesn't get much more civilized…
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 inPhilosophy Statistics
Randomness & God
Reader Omer Abid points us to Serkan Zorba's article "God is Random: A New Perspective on Evolution and Creationism", which has concepts of interest to all of us (Abid asked…
Posted inStatistics
Theories Don’t Have Probabilities: Or, Is The Multiverse Real?
There was in Munich last week a three-day workshop on the soul of science. According to Quanta Magazine, the conference was driven by George Ellis and Joe Silk who wrote…
Posted inStatistics
The End Of Class
Picture above was taken by one of my students near the end of the day, yesterday. Notice the "#1 New Release in Probability & Statistics." This adds to the laurels…
