A PDF of this article may be downloaded here. This article is a precis of Uncertainty. Opening Act Patient walks into the doctor and says, “Doc, I saw that new ad. The […]
Classical Statistics Has Outlived Its Usefulness: Here’s The Fix
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 intelligence pioneer […]
Why Is Economics Plagued By Math?
The answer is easy: because math is numbers and numbers are measurement and measurements are necessary to make a subject “scientific” in the modern sense of that word. Why should economics be […]
Is Most Published Research Wrong? Yep. Here’s Why
One of my students—my heart soars like a hawk!—sent me the video linked above. I’ll assume you’ve watched it, as my comments make reference to it. About the dismal effects of p-values, […]
The Intellectual Capacity Of Women by David Stove
Jim Franklin hosted this classic essay of the late David Stove’s for many years. But he received a complaint from one of the intellectually Tolerant. As Franklin said on this site, “An […]
Stephen Hawking Thinks Too Much Of Us; More
Autumn of the Modern Ages What!? You haven’t headed over to Mike Flynn’s place and read his series The Autumn of the Modern Ages? Sometimes I don’t understand you people at all. […]
The Applicability Of Experiments
Every probability problem has the form Pr(Q|E), where Q is the proposition of interest and E the evidence, premises, or “data” probative (or not) of E. Change the evidence, change the probability […]
BBC: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? BBC: Because Something
Opens the BBC’s campaign: Some physicists think they can explain why the universe first formed. If they are right, our entire cosmos may have sprung out of nothing at all. People have […]
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