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Dissolving & Not Resolving The Fermi Paradox

Paper by Anders Sandberg, Eric Drexler and Toby Ord of the Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University made the news last week. "Dissolving the Fermi Paradox", on Arxiv (and therefore…

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How To Do Predictive Statistics: Part VIII — Starting Stan

Review! You must at least review the first lessons---all class material is on one page for ease. I'll have more words about the mysticism of simulation, but I've said it…

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Statistics Are Now Hate Facts

Hate facts are true statements about reality that our elites demand remain occult and unuttered. Elites don't yet say that members of the elite cannot know hate facts, but they…

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SJWs Coming For Mathematics

Stream: SJWs Coming For Mathematics Great news! For those kids who will be taught math by teachers graduating from Texas State University's Math Education program, life just got easier. This…

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Thou Shalt Not Seek The Wee P

Because some readers may think the crusade against the wee p is mine alone, sinner that I am, or that I somehow represent an obscure shady suspect intellectually insufficient movement,…

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Real Versus Fake Fake News: Update

Stream: Real Versus Fake Fake News On the last day of bad old year, Lake Superior State University released its 43rd annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English…

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The Limits Of Science

The title of this article could equally well be "The limits of philosophy" or of theology, or of any intellectual endeavor. The question is: can we continue to learn indefinitely?…

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Chaos & Outrage In The Church — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Chaos and outrage have again engulfed the Church. We must talk about this incredibly ugly and painful boil on the Body of Christ. To lance a boil, you must insert…

Rudolph Harrier on Mathematics & The Imposing Your Beliefs FallacyMay 21, 2024
About ten years ago educators started to realize that they could get higher pass rates in mathematics classes if they…
Mark Docherty on Mathematics & The Imposing Your Beliefs FallacyMay 21, 2024
"Incidentally, one also wonders if in addition to the chiral-paired smoke signal for “white men” there is another for “mathematicians.”…
Briggs on Mathematics & The Imposing Your Beliefs FallacyMay 21, 2024
Hagfish, I bet your hair was blowing gently in the wind when you wrote that.
Hagfish Bagpipe on Mathematics & The Imposing Your Beliefs FallacyMay 21, 2024
Professor Ball: "But in many Indigenous societies, mathematics is lived from when you are born to when you rejoin your…
JH on Mathematics & The Imposing Your Beliefs FallacyMay 21, 2024
Weird comments. I give up, Mr. Briggs. All I can say is that I am no mind reader like you.