The closest I come to “Big Oil” is when I create my spécialité de la maison: bacon-olive-oil confit. Incidentally, that’s the only way to cook this miracle pig meat—frying removes all that […]
Briggs and Big Oil
Decision Calculator
This is just a rough prototype meant to be easy to play with inside a post. READ the help and guidebook! Suggestions for new canned examples welcome—the hard part is deriving historical […]
Larry goes to the Market
This has been making its way round the ‘net—by far the best remix.
Podcast Lecture #3: Understanding Statistics and Probability
[podcast]https://www.wmbriggs.com/audio/wmbriggs_com_lecture_0003.mp3[/podcast] Today’s lecture: Review Logic: If our premises are that we have a six-sided die that we’ll toss, and that only one side will show on that toss, and that just one […]
Windows 7? Why not Linux, instead?
My logs show that only a paltry 3.6% of readers have reached Complete Enlightenment. The bad news is that 83.1% of you live a hellish existence and suffer regular torments and agony, […]
Not Evil, Just Wrong reviewed: Guest Post by Bernie
Today’s guest post is by our very own Bernie, longtime reader and contributer. Too confused and too nuanced to be effective Phelim McAleer’s and Ann McElhinney’s Not Evil, Just Wrong targets the […]
Full Disclosure, Anita Dunn, and Fox News: A Fairness Proposal for Journalists
In the United States, we have several major news outlets. On television: ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, MSNBC, CNN, and Fox. There are also several national-ish newspapers (and a diminishing number of local […]
Podcast Lecture #2: Understanding Statistics and Probability
[podcast]https://www.wmbriggs.com/audio/wmbriggs_com_lecture_0002.mp3[/podcast] On today’s lecture: Quick review All knowledge is conditional on evidence, which eventually leads back to our intuitions. The steps in an argument that make it valid are also assumed to […]
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