This post originally ran 26 July 2011. I should have mentioned the recency bias in the citizens, and that most critics nowadays are woke dweebs. But this was before the Great Awokening, […]
Are Movies Getting Worse?
Thoughts On One-Time Pads For Cell Phones
Best short description of one-time pads (OTPs) is from Jason Matthews, who is describing their use in the heyday of the cold war in the book Strangers on a Bridge by James […]
A Coincidence: Coyne Zinged Me Before I Him — Or, The Coyne Fallacy Redux
After posting yesterday’s article, Jerry Coyne Doesn’t Have Free Will (poor fellow), I immediately saw hits coming to my place from Coyne’s. It turned out that, unbeknownst to me, the afternoon before, […]
Hear Briggs Speak Free on Why You’re Doing Statistics Wrong
Hear Briggs Speak Free! Where by “Free” I mean you pay my expenses. Here are the details. Hear the One And Only William M. Briggs The Statisticians to the Stars! speak on […]
Heartland Conference, Statistics Classes, Statistics Books, & Statistical Cups
Heartland Conference I’ll be there, speaking Friday on “The Need To Believe In ‘The Solution’ To Global Warming”. This is a paper which I’ll try to find a home for (2,000 words). […]
Engaging, Witty, Funny, Brilliant, And Most Humble Speaker Seeks Gigs
Are you in the need of a speaker for your event? Do you desire a trainer who can deliver more than what you can look up on your own on the Internet? […]
Updates: What’s Happening With Briggs? With the On-line Course? Etc.?
Homefront Things progress on the Briggs ranch—a patch of 900 square feet in the wilds of Upper Eastern Manhattan. They may shortly be progressing away from the island towards…where, nobody knows. If […]
On Dowsing—Guest Post by Ray Kidd
I dug a one-meter square test pit outside an 18th century ruined cottage. A “dowser” invited to test his powers stood beside the pit dangling a bob on a string. It swung […]
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