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Insanity & Doom Update XLI
Item Great writers are found with an open mind I'd been suffering under the misguided illusion that the purpose of mainstream publishers like Penguin Random House was to sell and…
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Statistics Vs. Artificial Intelligence
https://twitter.com/drewconway/status/1010137695664951297 This meme which heads today's post (see discussion under this tweet a modification of an original cartoon) expresses the true distinction between statistics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Which…
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Making Random Draws Is Nuts
Let's do a little science experiment together. Go into the closet and pull out an opaque sack or bag. Anything will do, even a large sock. If you can fit…
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Notes On Our (So Far) Cold Civil War
The left did not expect to lose to Drumpf. Some left government officials did their best to keep it from happening. But nobody bats a thousand. The left's cry-ins and…
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There Is No Prior? What’s A Bayesian To Do? Relax, There’s No Model, Either
I saw colleague Deborah Mayo casting, or rather trying to cast, aspersions on Bayesian philosophy by saying there is "no prior". Bayesians might not agree, but it's true. Mayo's right.…
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Global Warming: Thirty Years Of Hype, Hysteria & Hullabaloo
In the late spring of 1988, Senator Tim Wirth from Colorado (guess his party) called the Weather Bureau and asked what historically was the hottest day of the year in…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Human Happiness Does Not Lie In Acts Of Virtue
Previous post. Strange (again again) are the things men seek out. That man's ultimate felicity does not lie in acts of the moral virtues 1 It is clear, too, that…
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Insanity & Doom Update XL
Item The Hitler Of South Africa Tells White People, He Won't Kill Them...Yet! Earlier this week while most of the world was transfixed on the World Cup, the Trump/Kim handshake,…