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Just What Is Signal And What Is Noise?
There are two senses of Signal and Noise (SN). The first is obvious: a signal, some known phenomenon, is corrupted by outside forces, where these caused corruptions are the noise.…
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Carbon Fibre Masculinity, Homosociality, Gendered Surfaces, & Idiot Academics
Tell you right up front that the only way to be sure of solving the crisis in higher education is to nuke universities from orbit and then salt the grounds…
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Stream: Global Warming Alarmists Plead: Save the Children By Not Having Them
Today's post is at The Stream: Global Warming Alarmists Plead: Save the Children By Not Having Them. Global warming will, of course, doom us all. That is, if the models…
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Falsifiability Is Not That Useful
False is not True We spoke earlier of falsification and why I didn't think it was an especially useful criterion. My tweets about it inspired Deborah Mayo, who advocates for…
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The City Of Sodom Possibly Identified (On Evidence)
A team of archaeologists are making the case for Sodom. Not for buggery, mind, but for the historical location of the doomed city. And when you hear the evidence for…
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Fermi’s Paradox & Gaian Bottlenecks
Democracy (the system) is enough to account for the seeming alien life-form which is Hillary and for whatever that thing is on Trump's head. But as queer as Democracy is…
Climate Hustle: In Which Yours Truly Becomes A Movie Star. Updates From Last Night
I'm thinking of hiring the same security firm Mark "I'm No Fan Of Guns Unless They're Used To Protect Me" Zuckerberg. Just like he, I'll be a big star and…
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Climate Witch Hunt Now Official: Think Tank Subpoenaed
We've already seen the start of this, but it was only penknife rattling, a group of avaricious lawyers pushing their (wrong) version of climate physics. Yet the mix of greed…