William M. Briggs

Headline: "Perfect randomness realized for the first time". Perfection! "It may seem strange, but it is almost impossible to create a perfect coin or a perfect die," says [paper author]…

Reminder: The Thursday Class is only for those interested in studying uncertainty. I don’t expect all want to read these posts. Pease don’t feel like you must. Yet, I have…

Every now and then I suspect there is a game played by bored elites to see which of them can get away with the most asinine "climate change" claim. There…

This IQ test question was making the rounds the other day. See if you can answer is before peeking. Don't Peek Don't Peek Don't Peek Don't Peek Don't Peek The…

You will have noticed these last few weeks a switch to bi-weekly posts, longer and (I hope) more informative than the old way of having three to four short, standard…

I don't know who wrote Magnifica Humanitas, the Vatican's new encyclical on "safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence", but he (or it?) appears to not have…

In proving foresight may be vain:The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ MenGang aft agley,An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,For promis’d joy! Lennie said, "I thought you was…

Reminder: The Thursday Class is only for those interested in studying uncertainty. I don’t expect all want to read these posts. Pease don’t feel like you must. Yet, I have…