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Ghost In The AI
There's a terrific book, well worth scoring a copy, by M. Lamar Keene called The Psychic Mafia. Keene tells the tale of Camp Chesterfield, a sort of outlet shopping mall…
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Special Midweek Doom — AI Won’t Save The Right Edition
The Doom is piling up faster than I can shovel it out. Item Amazon's Facial Recognition Software Found To Be Racist, Sexist ...one thing I didn't see coming was allegations…
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Insanity & Doom Update XLIII
Item Scoring 30% on a test is enough to graduate high school in NYC The bar keeps dropping on state math exams -- and critics are saying it's because officials…
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Your Most Important Choice: Part II — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
Read Part I. As we consider Team 2 (Christianity) in light of the five points of interest to me, it bears noting that Christianity has a built-in advantage over Team…
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The Limitations And Usefulness Of IQ
That Smarts Everybody knows that some people are smarter than others, and that some are teachable and some not. Well, some people do deny these facts, believing that if everybody…
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How To Do Predictive Statistics: Part V New (Free) Software Multinomial Regression
Previous post in the series (or click above on Class). REVIEW! Download the code: mcmc.pred.R, mcmc.pred.examples.R. If you downloaded before, download again. This is version 0.22! Only the example code…
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Free Statistics Class: Predictive Case Study 1, Part II
Review! We began our first predictive analysis, and spent a lot of time with it. But we still haven't got to the main question! And that is how it should…
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Take Burnham’s Test To See If You’re A Progressive: Suicide of the West at 50
This classic column appeared in July 2015. Besides some editing, I would now change 'liberal' to 'progressive', which I have done in the title. I made no other change. See…
