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Class 91: Try Not To Use the ROC Curve & AUC
Reminder: The Thursday Class is only for those interested in studying uncertainty. I don’t expect all want to read these posts. Pease don’t feel like you must. Yet, I have…
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Climate Change Increases Risk of Even Slower World Cup Games!
Every now and then I suspect there is a game played by bored elites to see which of them can get away with the most asinine "climate change" claim. There…
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The Ultimate IQ Test: Guessing the Author’s Mind and Escaping the Infinity of Answers
This IQ test question was making the rounds the other day. See if you can answer is before peeking. Don't Peek Don't Peek Don't Peek Don't Peek Don't Peek The…
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Reader Poll: Shorter or Longer, Frequent or Rarer Posts?
You will have noticed these last few weeks a switch to bi-weekly posts, longer and (I hope) more informative than the old way of having three to four short, standard…
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No Model Will Save Us: Pope Leo, the Miserostat, and AI’s Woke Coders
I don't know who wrote Magnifica Humanitas, the Vatican's new encyclical on "safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence", but he (or it?) appears to not have…
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How High an IQ Must A Person Have To Be Executed?
In proving foresight may be vain:The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ MenGang aft agley,An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,For promis’d joy! Lennie said, "I thought you was…
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Class 90: Simple (Optimal) Decisions
Reminder: The Thursday Class is only for those interested in studying uncertainty. I don’t expect all want to read these posts. Pease don’t feel like you must. Yet, I have…
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Shocking Abortion Numbers: Death Distributions Show We’re Living Longer
There were comments, hither and yon, about whether people were dying older today than they were in olden days. Some said yes, some said it was only an illusion, perhaps…