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Time To Fast: I’m Giving Up The Internet For Lent
Our friend Jay Richards, editor of The Stream, has an excellent on-going series on fasting. In Part II, he discusses how our Lord fasted for forty days. By fasted Richards…
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Another Proof of the Uselessness of P-values
Susan Holmes has done us a service by writing clearly the philosophy of the p-value in her new paper "Statistical Proof? The Problem of Irreproducibility" in the Bulletin of the…
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Free Data Science Class: Predictive Case Study 1, Part VIII
Review! We're continuing with the CGPA example. The data is on line, and of unknown origin, but good enough to use as an example. We will build a correlational model,…
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Falsifiability Is Falsifiable
We've talked many times before, and at greater length in Uncertanity, about the concept of falsifiability. It has come up again lately. The term shouldn't be but is equivocal. I…
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Free Data Science Class: Predictive Case Study 1, Part VII
Review! This is our last week of theory. Next week the practical side begins in earnest. However much fun that will be, and it will be a jolly time, this…
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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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Any Of You Still Listen To Shortwave?
If you don't know what shortwave is, then you don't listen to it. You probability don't even own a radio that tunes to the shortwave bands (which are above the…
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Update: That Silly Asylum Applications & Temperature Fluctuations Paper
Update at bottom. I was asked by Axel Bojanowski, Science Editor at Der Spiegel to examine the Science paper "Asylum applications respond to temperature fluctuations" by Anouch Missirian and Wolfram…