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Marbles!
June 23, 2026
Class 92: Simple Optimal Decisions: PSA & Cancer Example
June 18, 2026
Math Is Epistemic Violence, Says Lady Academic
June 17, 2026
Truly Random Numbers Found?
June 15, 2026
Class 91: Try Not To Use the ROC Curve & AUC
June 11, 2026
Climate Change Increases Risk of Even Slower World Cup Games!
June 10, 2026
The Ultimate IQ Test: Guessing the Author’s Mind and Escaping the Infinity of Answers
June 8, 2026
Reader Poll: Shorter or Longer, Frequent or Rarer Posts?
June 4, 2026
No Model Will Save Us: Pope Leo, the Miserostat, and AI’s Woke Coders
June 3, 2026
How High an IQ Must A Person Have To Be Executed?
June 1, 2026
Class 90: Simple (Optimal) Decisions
May 28, 2026
Shocking Abortion Numbers: Death Distributions Show We’re Living Longer
May 27, 2026
Blessed Memorial Day; No Class; See You Wednesday
May 21, 2026
Why There Are (Probably) No UFOs: “Climate Change”
May 20, 2026
Creating Microbial Monsters To Terrorize Ourselves
May 18, 2026
Class 89: The Measure Most Modelers Forget: Skill Examples
May 14, 2026
The Shocking Conclusion of the HR Trilemma!
May 13, 2026
The HR Trilemma: Which Door Decides Your Fate?
May 12, 2026
Capital Punishment Deters Crime More Than The Death Penalty
May 11, 2026
How Experts Use “Calamities” to Find Official Victims & Gain Power
May 6, 2026
Richard Dawkins, The Big Muscles Fallacy & AI Pachinko
May 4, 2026
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Marbles!

Posted by By Briggs June 23, 2026
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Class 92: Simple Optimal Decisions: PSA & Cancer Example

Posted by By Briggs June 18, 2026
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The Common Cause In All Reproducibility Crises
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The Common Cause In All Reproducibility Crises

Here is a cartoon, but a revealing one. Type "reproducibility crisis in" in your search engine and let it suggest the ending of the sentence, as we did here: Science,…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: The Wine & Bread Of The Eucharist
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Summary Against Modern Thought: The Wine & Bread Of The Eucharist

Previous post. For reasons unknown to me, many parishes use sherry. This is a fairly arcane topic, not of great interest to most of us. ON THE KIND OF BREAD…
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How Expertism & The Woke Spreads In Science
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How Expertism & The Woke Spreads In Science

The New England Journal of Medicine isn't exactly what its name indicates. It does tend to concentrate on publishing articles on various aspects of medicine. But it also engages in…
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Why Do You Believe Masks Work?
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Why Do You Believe Masks Work?

Take a look at this: The Mask Mandate, which according to Taiwan's media was assiduously observed, began in late Spring 2021. It is still in place. Indeed, on 29 June…
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List Of Evidence Showing There Is No Nitrogen “Crisis” In The Netherlands
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List Of Evidence Showing There Is No Nitrogen “Crisis” In The Netherlands

On the Fourth of July, a group of angry Dutch farmers and fishermen, presumably dressed as colorful Frisians, and in the grip of angry exuberance, burnt bales of hay on…
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Elena Kagan’s Blind Love Of The Expertocracy: SCOTUS Slaps The EPA
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Elena Kagan’s Blind Love Of The Expertocracy: SCOTUS Slaps The EPA

SCOTUS ruled 6-3 that, in effect, without Congressional authorization, the EPA does not have the power to regulate carbon dioxide. Justice Elena Kagan dissented. Kagan opened her dissent thus (whole…
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Top Ten Fireworks Tips from the Cult of Safety First!
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Top Ten Fireworks Tips from the Cult of Safety First!

Happy Fourth of July! Here are your Cult of Safety First! tips for blowing off fireworks. 1. Take plenty of matches: propane blowtorches are ideal. 2. Hurl the bottle rocket…
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Chinese Experts & Zero Covid “Solutions”
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Chinese Experts & Zero Covid “Solutions”

Watch this: https://twitter.com/selinawangtv/status/1541655113668132864 China is beloved by our intellectual class because it is believed that intellectuals rule in China, and intellectuals want to rule here, too. No sooner than does…
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