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All Those Warnings About Models Are True: Researchers Given Same Data Come To Huge Number Of Conflicting Findings
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All Those Warnings About Models Are True: Researchers Given Same Data Come To Huge Number Of Conflicting Findings

Seventy-some researcher groups were given identical data, and asked to investigate an identical question. The groups did not communicate. Details are in the paper "Observing Many Researchers Using the Same…
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More Proof Hypothesis Testing Is Wrong & Why The Predictive Method Is The Only Sane Way To Do Statistics
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More Proof Hypothesis Testing Is Wrong & Why The Predictive Method Is The Only Sane Way To Do Statistics

Here it is, friends, the one complete universal simple function, the only function you will ever need to fit any---I said any---dataset x. And all it takes is one---I said…
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The First Cause is a Trinity: No More, No Less — Guest Post by Oldavid
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The First Cause is a Trinity: No More, No Less — Guest Post by Oldavid

The purpose of this essay is to provide a very simple “lowbrow” refutation of Modernism's “neo- pantheism” using concepts intelligible to even the most unsophisticated pragmatic and sane mind. The…
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Classical Statistics Has Outlived Its Usefulness: Here’s The Fix
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Classical Statistics Has Outlived Its Usefulness: Here’s The Fix

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…
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Researcher In AI Responds To Criticisms
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Researcher In AI Responds To Criticisms

I received this thoughtful, and may I say highly accurate, email from reader EN, which I include in full below. I removed the age and name to protect EN's identity.…
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The Limitations And Usefulness Of IQ
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The Limitations And Usefulness Of IQ

That Smarts Everybody knows that some people are smarter than others, and that some are teachable and some not. Well, some people do deny these facts, believing that if everybody…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: The Motion Of The Heavens
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Summary Against Modern Thought: The Motion Of The Heavens

Previous post. This looks like a lot, but it is not that difficult. Our saint moves us swiftly through each argument. There is much to learn from this, even though,…
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Machines Can’t Learn (Universals): The Abacus As Brain Part II

Read Our Intellects Are Not Computers: The Abacus As Brain Part I first. Machines can learn, all right. But they can't learn like us. Machines cannot apprehend universals, ideas of…
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