William M. Briggs

How To Generate Scientific Over-Certainty

It's easy to sound more certain than the evidence warrants, especially when using classical parameter-based statistical methods. I'll show you how. I'll give you the procedure first, then work through…

SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Answering Criticisms Against The Incarnation

Previous post. Part II, and part last, of the rebuttals of the objections against the incarnation. This chapter is what we of a mathematical mind call long. ANSWER TO THE…

Culture

The Consecration Of Russia & Its Consequences To The Global Church — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Editor's note: This was written before the Vatican changed the consecration, which Pope Benedict was to attend, to "humanity" with a special emphasis on Ukraine and Russia. The new ceremony…

Culture

Black Woman SCOTUS Nominee, Who Is A Black Woman, Doesn’t Know What A Woman Is

SEN. BLACKBURN: "Can you provide a definition of the word 'woman'?" JACKSON: "No, I can't" BLACKBURN: "You can't?" JACKSON: "I'm not a biologist" Let's think carefully about everything that has…

Culture

How Zealots Rise To The Top: Global Warming & Transanity Examples

The main reason you can be assured global warming of doom, a.k.a. climate change, is yet another slow-burn moral panic is that scientists in charge of its theory can never,…

Culture

The Empire Of Lies & The Wars Started By False Flags

You've seen the new acronym GAE. Global American Empire. Pronounced gay, for the export and enforcement of Globohomo, among other things. You'll not be surprised to learn that the Big…

Culture

Will There Be Any Academic Refuges In A Woke Purity Spiral?

How bad will it get? It can get pretty bad. It's pretty bad now (see this thread about whiteness in physics). But will it get worse? We recall that in…

SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: It Was Suitable God Became Flesh

Previous post. Part I of the rebuttals of the objections given last week. Why did God become a man? THAT IT WAS SUITABLE FOR GOD TO BE MADE FLESH 1…

CorkyAgain on The Equality ParadoxJuly 10, 2026
Somehow I'd missed that story about Schumer's grilling gaffe. Aside from not lighting the fire or putting cheese on a…
John Pate on The Equality ParadoxJuly 9, 2026
Maybe it wasn't considered safe for Schumer to be near an open flame, having no familiarity with the ordinary tasks…
Fubsy on My Horrible Interaction With AIJuly 9, 2026
Lol, I remember "Iron Eyes Cody," the spaghetti Indian!
Rudolph Harrier on My Horrible Interaction With AIJuly 9, 2026
I've also experienced that thing where it claims to not be able to do something it just did. I see…
Rudolph Harrier on My Horrible Interaction With AIJuly 9, 2026
A couple of things I have noticed about how LLMs have developed in the last year or so: 1.) Somehow…

William M. Briggs

The Equality Paradox

My Horrible Interaction With AI

SOON

The Court’s Slow Theft Of The Constitution — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Happy Birthday to US

Never Use Or Trust P-values (Pagan-Values)

Musk Doges Deaths: Researchers Say USAID Absence Kills Kills Kills!

The Intellectual Capacity Of Women by David Stove

Marbles!

Class 92: Simple Optimal Decisions: PSA & Cancer Example

Math Is Epistemic Violence, Says Lady Academic

Truly Random Numbers Found?

Class 91: Try Not To Use the ROC Curve & AUC

Climate Change Increases Risk of Even Slower World Cup Games!

The Ultimate IQ Test: Guessing the Author’s Mind and Escaping the Infinity of Answers

Reader Poll: Shorter or Longer, Frequent or Rarer Posts?

No Model Will Save Us: Pope Leo, the Miserostat, and AI’s Woke Coders

How High an IQ Must A Person Have To Be Executed?

Class 90: Simple (Optimal) Decisions

Shocking Abortion Numbers: Death Distributions Show We’re Living Longer

Blessed Memorial Day; No Class; See You Wednesday

The Equality Paradox

My Horrible Interaction With AI

How To Generate Scientific Over-Certainty

Summary Against Modern Thought: Answering Criticisms Against The Incarnation

The Consecration Of Russia & Its Consequences To The Global Church — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Black Woman SCOTUS Nominee, Who Is A Black Woman, Doesn’t Know What A Woman Is

How Zealots Rise To The Top: Global Warming & Transanity Examples

The Empire Of Lies & The Wars Started By False Flags

Will There Be Any Academic Refuges In A Woke Purity Spiral?

Summary Against Modern Thought: It Was Suitable God Became Flesh

There Is No Culture Without Inequality: Stove 1

Impose Your Beliefs Before They Impose Theirs

Telekinesis: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification

The Physics Of Blessings: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification