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Hung Jury: The Verdict On Uncertainty
This invited paper (which I forgot to post!) appeared in the festschrift for Hung T. Nguyen, previously at New Mexico State University and now at Chiang Mai University, to celebrate…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Arguments For Poverty
Previous post. We're still on poverty, for and against. ANSWERS TO THE ARGUMENTS BROUGHT FORWARD ABOVE AGAINST POVERTY 1 Now that these things have been seen, it is not difficult…
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Classical Statistics Has Outlived Its Usefulness: Here’s The Fix
A PDF of this article may be downloaded here. This article is a precis of Uncertainty. Opening Act Patient walks into the doctor and says, "Doc, I saw that new…
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The Offence Fallacy
The Offence Fallacy is perhaps the most popular bad argument used to dismiss Truths which are uncomfortable to us moderns. It is best illustrated in a real example. Here are…
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Scientists Prove There Is Life After Death?
Headline: "British And German Scientists Prove There Is Life After Death." Thanks to reader Mark Charters for discovering the study. British and German scientists have confirmed there is some form…
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Edge’s Last Question
The guy who runs Edge, the site we've had some fun with over the years, has decided he's run out of interesting questions. So to go out with a noise,…
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What Neural Nets Really Are: Or, Artificial Intelligence Pioneer Says Start Over
There is ancient wisdom in the phrase never believe your own press that computer scientists have laid aside in their quest to discover "artificial" "intelligence". In the Axios article "Artificial…
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Gorilla Warfare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDC5wswGnaA I do not understand the human race. It has so little love for creatures with a different face. Treating animals like people is no madness or disgrace. I do…
