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Uncertainty’s A Hit!
It hasn't been a year, but Springer issued its annual report, and, in my eyes anyway, Uncertainty is a hit! From 30 June 2016 through the first two weeks of…
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Brain Damage Increases Religious Fundamentalism—Or Scientific Hubris?
Stream: Brain Damage Increases Religious Fundamentalism---Or Scientific Hubris? You didn't hear it coming. You didn't even feel it. Yet there you were on Hamburger Hill, 12 May 1969, praying you'd…
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The Weakening Of College Credentials
The picture above is the result of a 10-question quiz given to (purported) college graduates from 1974 until last year, taken from the site The Audacious Epigone. That gentleman's description…
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Why I’m Unconvinced By Penrose’s Entropy/Anthropic Argument
There are a number of "constants" used in physics, such as the speed of light, the Planck constant, elementary charge and so forth. Some of these constants are bare, meaning…
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Trend Models & The Inability To Discover Cause
The plot atop this post is one of an observable, the cause of which is known to be related to a variety of physical, chemical, biological, geographical, and even sociological…
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Every Result Of Unsupervised Learning Is Correct; Or, All Learning Is Supervised
The real point I wish to make is that there is no such thing as unsupervised learning; or, stated another way, Truth exists; or, stated another way, every solution to…
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Gallup: More Adults Identifying As LGBT(…), Which Implies Even More Will
For the purposes of full disclosure (as they say), I self-identify as a yak. Thus far I am the only known Yak-American. But once the advantages of yakitude become better…
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Science of Global Warming Reduced to Raw Emotion at People’s Climate March: Updates
The Summa Contra Gentiles sequence will return next and not this week as announced last week. Why? Because I forgot the zombies were going to take to the streets---again. Like…