William M. Briggs

Insights on Philosophy of Beauty — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor

On the eve of the greatest beauty, an essay on what beauty means. What is beauty? It may be a little complicated to define how an object, thing or person…

Culture

Thieving Elites And The Fall Of The Republic

You've already heard about the so-called COIVD "relief" bill, which surely must be the longest bill in history, coming in at just under 5,600 pages. Foreigners benefited most. Like those…

Statistics

Ignore The Rules & Restrictions Like They Do: Coronavirus Update XLV

IGNORE BAD RULES https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1340872613892014080 Ignore the bad rules just like they do. Birx was the latest one caught flaunting the rules she knew were useless, and even harmful. You flaunt…

Culture

The Fight Must Be Local — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Anyone who says the Constitution is a living document is either a tool or an idiot. The Constitution is dead. As of last week, you have exactly zero rights. None.…

SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Man Cannot Be Freed From Sin Except By Grace

Previous post. A very simple pre-Christmas lesson. You cannot heal your mortal wounds yourself, for an offence that is infinite requires infinite power. THAT MAN CANNOT BE FREED FROM SIN…

Culture

Separate Red & Blue? They’d Never Let Us Go

"Rebecca", perhaps a descendant of Abraham Lincoln, took quill in hand to write "The Separation" at the American Mind. It's one of a spate of musings on the feasibility and…

Statistics

Diversity Is Our Weakness: Special Forces Edition

https://twitter.com/USSOCOM/status/1337041831247360006 For those that can't see the tweet from the "Official Twitter account for the U.S. Special Operations Command", it reads "'Diversity and inclusion requires action. It requires decisions and…

Statistics

JAMA: Evidence Government Solutions To Prevent Transmission of COVID Cause Transmission of COVID

Here is the opening of the abstract in the new JAMA paper "Household Transmission of SARS-CoV-2: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis" by Madewell et al. "Importance Crowded indoor environments, such…

Briggs on How Can You Tell If You Have ESP?June 30, 2025
Spetzer, All good points. I go into many of them later in the chapter.
spetzer86 on How Can You Tell If You Have ESP?June 30, 2025
If the receiver and sender independently wrote down the guess / card with no verbal communication, it might be better.…
JH on Class 56: The Best Model!June 29, 2025
How can you make predictions in the big data era without using a model? Trust your gut.
Jonas P. Kay on Which God Are You Rejecting? David Bentley Hart’s The Experience of God, Part IJune 28, 2025
I answer all by saying you cannot get something from nothing. There is beauty in its simplicity and it is…
Johnno on England’s Mandatory Suicide & WomenJune 27, 2025
So what's the betting pool on the odds about when and in which country will be the first to perform…

William M. Briggs

How Can You Tell If You Have ESP?

Class 56: The Best Model!

Sabine Hossenfelder’s Free Will Folly & The Deadly Sin Of Reification

England’s Mandatory Suicide & Women

On The Probability Of God

Class 55: Models Vs Reality

AI & Chess Both Produce Pre-Coded Output

The Hubris Of Experts: NIH Edition

The Mathematics Of Conspiracy Theories. Part 1: Black Eye Club Example

Class 54: Exchangeability & Parameters

Over-Certainty Of Polygenic Scores

AI & The Dilemma Of Technology

What Are The Chances Thomas Jefferson & John Adams Died On The Fourth of July, 1826?

Class 53: Laplace Was Right!

Even The Woke Say Science Is Petering Out

Expert Nathan Confas: Experts Know Best

Science Claims 7% Of Adults Saw A Mass Shooting

Class 52: The Origin Of Parameters

IQ Is Not Intelligence

What Are The Chances…George Wendt Dies On Same Day Cheers Ended 32 Years Before?

Class 51: Bayes Is Only A Formula

How Can You Tell If You Have ESP?

Class 56: The Best Model!

Insights on Philosophy of Beauty — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor

Thieving Elites And The Fall Of The Republic

Ignore The Rules & Restrictions Like They Do: Coronavirus Update XLV

The Fight Must Be Local — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Summary Against Modern Thought: Man Cannot Be Freed From Sin Except By Grace

Separate Red & Blue? They’d Never Let Us Go

Diversity Is Our Weakness: Special Forces Edition

JAMA: Evidence Government Solutions To Prevent Transmission of COVID Cause Transmission of COVID

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