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 […]
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 […]
There always comes a time when everything becomes clear. Even in the fog of battle. That thought defined the night of Sept. 14th, when Gavin Newsom retained his governor’s chair in New […]
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 […]
It is probably obvious that whether a proposition is (necessarily) true is different than proving, in some formal system, that it is true. It is also clear that if you don’t have […]
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 […]
Men swim in idiocy, and always have. It is only when a culture enters its declining phase that it becomes incurably decadent. Decadence can last some time, but not forever. Perhaps the […]
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 […]
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