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Chapter 1 Excerpt from <em>Uncertainty: The Soul of Probability, Modeling & Statistics</em>

Chapter 1 Excerpt from Uncertainty: The Soul of Probability, Modeling & Statistics

Buy the book! Necessary & Conditional Truth Given "x,y,z are natural numbers and x>y and y>z" the proposition "x>z" is true (I am assuming logical knowledge here, which I don't…

Culture

Why I Do Not Like The Korea Deal –Guest Post by Ianto Watt

I can smell this one a mile away. Which isn't hard, considering how bad it stinks. To High Heaven, in fact. It's the remake of Nixon's 'Great Opening' to China.…

Culture

Pity The Poor ‘Born That Way’ Pedophile!

There stands Mirjam Heine center stage. She smiles as the TED Talk audience greats her. But this is the wrong emotion. For she is here to tell us something horrible,…

Culture

Bible Sessions

A Close Reading In a shocking twist, you'll have to click here to read the beginning! I'm in the minority as far as Biblical expertise goes, though. I don't come…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Human Happiness Does Not Come In Health

Previous post. Strange (again again) are the things men seek out. That Human Felicity Does Not Consist In Goods of the Body 1 Moreover, that man's highest good does not…

Culture

Insanity & Doom Update XXXIX

Item California university's website says its OK for children to engage in 'sexual play,' watch porn It adds that parents should intervene only "if the acts are non-consensual or hurtful."…

Statistics

Statistics Are Now Hate Facts

Hate facts are true statements about reality that our elites demand remain occult and unuttered. Elites don't yet say that members of the elite cannot know hate facts, but they…

Culture Philosophy

If The Founding Principles Were So Great, How’d We Get To Where We Are? Part II

Read Part I (first!). Munoz is right to show there was not unanimity among the Founders. Most adopted the language of rights, but some tempered this with doses of natural-law…

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…
TFBW on Lesson 13: No “Fair” Dice & Jaynes SymmetryJuly 20, 2024
If nothing else, this lecture is giving me pause to reconsider some of my presuppositions. I'm not too satisfied with…