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Bad Predictions Mean Bad Models, Even If You’re A Distinguished Expert
Suppose you're an Expert, or even an ordinary person, and you say, "If the world is like X, then Y will happen". Or you say or imply, "If the world…
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William M. Briggs on Embracing Uncertainty and Stats as a False God – Thorinquiry
Thanks to EMM for the donation! I was interviewed by Duncan Thorin Shields (he goes by Thorin) last week. He asked the best questions I think I've ever been asked.…
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Longhousing The Internet
How many feminists does it take to screw in a new internet? That's not funny! Good joke! On you. The headline "Ofcom poaches Big Tech staff in push to enforce…
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Science Proves Isaac Newton Doesn’t Even Break Into Top 8,000 All Time Greatest Scientists
Issac Newton was the greatest scientist. The calculus, mechanics, gravity, thermodynamics, astronomy, optics, the binomial theorem, even theology! You name it, Newton was there, looming over all of us. "No…
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NSF to Science: DIE! Science to NSF: Bye!
A committee of the US Senate scanned all the grants doled out by the National Science Foundation over about three years, and discovered (with my emphasis) "3,483 grants, more than…
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Return Of The 1970s!
Hallucinogenics are back, baby. Maybe you know them by their cool name psychedelics. They're not back in the wild and weird and often destructive 60s way, but in the more…
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Climate Hersteria
Hersteria: soy-infused hyper-sensitive effeminate hysteria. I was driving in southern Florida (to see my folks) and the only English-language talk station I could pick up that wasn't a form of…
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Combinatorial Explosion: Theory Is Worse Than You Thought
A lot of kids have alphabet blocks. Twenty six wooden squares with the letters of the alphabet on them. One way to arrange them is just like in the song,…
