Briggs

Perspective On The Coronavirus: Sanity Check

Regular readers: no post on Saturday. Here's a nifty plot showing the percent of the world's population rubbed out by various epidemics. The percent population makes sense as a natural…

Statistics

Curse of The MINIMAX!

Make a list of things that might happen. Label this list X_1, X_2, X_3, ..., X_p, where "p" is for possibility. Each of these X_i is a thing that can…

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Culture

Who Will Be The Democrat Party’s Surprise Candidate? — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

https://twitter.com/ZoomerClips/status/1242690484771807232 Remember the guy in the picture heading this post? I've shown him to you before. Can't see him? Well, keep looking at it. But don't try and focus. Just…

Statistics

Coronavirus Update VI — Calm Yourselves

All the good stuff, caveats, code, and explanations are linked, some in Update III, and the most important in Update II, Update IV, Update V, and Bayes Theorem & Coronavirus,…

Statistics

Taleb Says If You’re Not Panicking, You’re A Psychopath

Another full coronavirus update will be posted tomorrow morning. You wouldn't think a beefy guy like Nassim Taleb would be a screaming sissy. His is, though. He has made himself…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Matrimony Should Be Indivisible

Previous post. We know every one of these arguments, so it's sad that we reject them. THAT MATRIMONY SHOULD BE INDIVISIBLE 1 If one will make a proper consideration, the…

Culture

Martial Law Lite Has Arrived — Update

Update Trump eyes two-week quarantine, only drug and grocery stores open President Trump, moving with haste to slow the spread of the coronavirus, is preparing a plan to mobilize the…

Culture

Coronavirus Open Thread

I came back on to see if anybody wanted to blow off steam on the Panic of the Century. I'll another full update next Tuesday. Here are just a couple…

John Pate on Academics Have Contest To See How Many Times They Can Say ‘Racist’ In An Article: An IQ StoryJuly 22, 2024
The problems with IQ measurement are very well understood by proponents like Lynn. I once had lunch with a group…
Class 14: No “UNfair” Dice & 1, 2, 3, Many! – William M. Briggs on The Probability Of A Head In A Coin Flip Is 1, Not 1/2July 22, 2024
[…] impossibly perfect symmetry in the device/die and its workings. Did you watch the coin flip video? (Blog, Substack). Now…
Johnno on Covid Is The Boogerman of Maladies: Now It Causes Cognitive Confusion Claim ResearchersJuly 21, 2024
Interesting things being discussed here. I guess it's time to see where this goes... https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/former-pfizer-vp-michael-yeadon-explains-why-theres-no-evidence-for-the-existence-of-any-viruses/ https://www.lifesitenews.com/analysis/scientists-challenge-fundamental-precepts-of-virology-do-viruses-even-exist/
John Pate on Covid Is The Boogerman of Maladies: Now It Causes Cognitive Confusion Claim ResearchersJuly 21, 2024
The LLM people need to point out AI “hallucinations” are fully in line with the business of science and are…
hudbwu on The Enlightenment Was The Beginning Of The Great Leveling: Stove 2July 20, 2024
All correct. Slavery had to be specially justified and strictly limited because nobody was inherently worthy of slavery. Therefore, all…