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Insanity & Doom Update XLVIII
Item Decline in the Fall (or Late Summer, Anyway): by Fred Gibbon This is Fred Reed at his curmudgeonly best. Item The Next Woman To Try Playing In A PGA…
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Insanity & Doom Update XVII
Item Science proves kids are bad for Earth. Morality suggests we stop having them. If you buy this view of responsibility, you might eventually admit that having many children is…
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AI Does Not Pose A Challenge To Christianity
The theology and philosophy of the Atlantic article "Is AI a Threat to Christianity?" proves that it was all downhill after the schoolmen in the sad twilight of the Middle…
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Predictive Probability Resources, Why Frequentism Fails & Uncertainty
From the mailbag, reader I.W. writes: Dear Professor, I represent social science (but of a priori bent), and I recently got really hooked on frequentialism. After all, prof. Mises employed…
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Free Data Science Class: Predictive Case Study 1, Part IV
Review! Code coming next week! Last time we decided to put ourselves in the mind of a dean and ask for the chance of CGPA falling into one of these…
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Register Your Predictions For 2018
As has been our tradition these many years, it's time to register our predictions for the coming year. We look at how well we did last year later this week.…
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What Neural Nets Really Are: Or, Artificial Intelligence Pioneer Says Start Over
There is ancient wisdom in the phrase never believe your own press that computer scientists have laid aside in their quest to discover "artificial" "intelligence". In the Axios article "Artificial…
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Who Is Q & Why Might He Matter? — Guest Post by The Blonde Bombshell
The internet is a cauldron of competing ideas. The ones that get the most play are promoted by the legacy media. Under the surface, there are a swarm of websites…
