Remember how, despite warnings to the contrary, many of you thought STEM was safe from the holiness spirals and vice signaling working its way through academic like salmonella through a dumpster-diving meth-addict’s […]
How Did We Do On Our 2021 Predictions?
How’d we do? Put it this way: none of us would have won any awards. Here is the list so you can follow along (perhaps open in a new window). As in […]
Uploading Ourselves Into Machines Is Impossible
Turns out Marvin Minsky, the AI guy, was one of Jeffrey Epstein’s clients. There is an interesting twist to this. The investigator (same as in the above link, from whom I am […]
Coronavirus Update XII — Who Has The Right Numbers?
All the good stuff, caveats, code, data sources and explanations are linked, some in Update III, and the most important in Update II, Update IV, Update V, Update VI, Update VII, Update […]
Many Atheists Still Believe In Higher Powers—Whatever Those Are
A new report on atheists is of interest. It’s “Understanding Unbelief: Atheists and agnostics around the world: Interim findings from 2019 research in Brazil, China, Denmark, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the […]
Reality-Based Probability & Statistics: Ending The Tyranny Of Parameters!
Here it is! The one, the only, the peer-reviewed (and therefore true) “Reality-Based Probability & Statistics: Solving the Evidential Crisis” (the link is to the pdf, which is 11 MB; there are […]
Coronavirus Update VIII: Blown Forecasts & Peak Performance
All the good stuff, caveats, code, data sources and explanations are linked, some in Update III, and the most important in Update II, Update IV, Update V, Update VI, Update VII, Bayes […]
Statistics Vs. Artificial Intelligence
Who made this? ??…??…?? pic.twitter.com/TgTiYBpMMy — Drew Conway (@drewconway) June 22, 2018 This meme which heads today’s post (see discussion under this tweet a modification of an original cartoon) expresses the true […]
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