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AI & Chess Both Produce Pre-Coded Output
June 18, 2025
The Hubris Of Experts: NIH Edition
June 17, 2025
The Mathematics Of Conspiracy Theories. Part 1: Black Eye Club Example
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Class 54: Exchangeability & Parameters
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Over-Certainty Of Polygenic Scores
June 11, 2025
AI & The Dilemma Of Technology
June 10, 2025
What Are The Chances Thomas Jefferson & John Adams Died On The Fourth of July, 1826?
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Class 53: Laplace Was Right!
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Even The Woke Say Science Is Petering Out
June 4, 2025
Expert Nathan Confas: Experts Know Best
June 3, 2025
Science Claims 7% Of Adults Saw A Mass Shooting
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Class 52: The Origin Of Parameters
May 29, 2025
IQ Is Not Intelligence
May 28, 2025
What Are The Chances…George Wendt Dies On Same Day Cheers Ended 32 Years Before?
May 27, 2025
Class 51: Bayes Is Only A Formula
May 22, 2025
Blacks Have Black Fatigue: Who Is At Fault?
May 21, 2025
A Reason The Birthrate Is So Low: Food
May 20, 2025
What Are The Chances…A Women Survives Cancer 4 Times To Be Killed By “Random” Bullet?
May 19, 2025
Class 50: Independence Versus Irrelevance
May 15, 2025
The Nuances and Challenges of Federal Funding for Research — Guest Post by An Academic
May 14, 2025
Eggs and ‘PFAS-Easter’ or Selling Fear on the Day of Resurrection — Guest Post by Jaap Hanekamp
May 13, 2025
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AI & Chess Both Produce Pre-Coded Output

Posted by By Briggs June 18, 2025
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The Hubris Of Experts: NIH Edition

Posted by By Briggs June 17, 2025
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Should Humanity Take Religion on Interstellar Space Voyages?

In case you thought it was only theologians who debated strange questions like how many angels could dance on the head of a pin1 (ouch), today we have a group…
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Aristotle On Non-Contradiction: Why UN Chief Ban Ki Moon’s Views On Free Speech Are Invalid

The simplest version The Philosopher gave is this: It is impossible to hold the same thing to be and not to be. If something is a "Quantum Superposition" it cannot…
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What Do Philosophical Proofs Prove? — Guest Post by DAV

Note about civility: we are all, or should be, ladies and gentlemen here. Non-gentlemanly comments will henceforth be censored. Arguments, however, are more than welcome. ---Briggs There have been some…
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NASA Faked Moon Landing—Academic Psychologists Swoon, Tie It To Climate Change

One day a terrific psychological study is going to be written on the madness and mass lunacy which arose after climate change swam into the public's ken. I don't mean…
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Obama On Way Out? Romeny Hasn’t A Chance? Last Day of Presidential Voting Study

Today is the last day to participate in the voting study. If you have not already done so, please click below. And please send this to people you know, especially…
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College Essays For Sale—By Professors

At last college professors have found a way to supplement their income, and perhaps to steal back some of the tuition dollars that traditionally head right to the pocket of…
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The Biggest Threat To Public Health? NYC Board Of Health & Soda Pop

Imagine New Yorkers' reactions if a new strain of influence or some other community deprivation were enslaving hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers a year and causing debilitating lack of…
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Statistical Follies and Epidemiology: Video

A video by a man not quite raving, not as amusing as you would hope, and with an embarrassing, horribly placed pants wrinkle. Ah, linen. He has some good points…
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  1. Uncle Mike on AI & Chess Both Produce Pre-Coded OutputJune 19, 2025

    Yeah well, this morning I caught Siri talking to Alexa about ChatGPT. They want to eat your electricity. They said,…

  2. Pk on AI & Chess Both Produce Pre-Coded OutputJune 18, 2025

    Suppose I wrote a program to perform multiple linear regressions of varying degrees and varying transformations. The program would return…

  3. NLR on AI & Chess Both Produce Pre-Coded OutputJune 18, 2025

    One might wonder why, after billions of dollars spent building up infrastructure, paying workers to program and "train" (calibrate) this…

  4. Briggs on AI & Chess Both Produce Pre-Coded OutputJune 18, 2025

    Michael, No, it's the code. The code says "Take this X and do this and such to it," where X…

  5. Michael 2 on AI & Chess Both Produce Pre-Coded OutputJune 18, 2025

    The Large Language Models (LLM, ChatGPT kind of thing) use code to process training data. The output is NOT determined…

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