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Sports Betting Is An Excellent Way To Lose Money

Posted by By Briggs January 12, 2026
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Class 75: A Gentle Introduction To Time Series

Posted by By Briggs January 8, 2026
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What Scientists Know That Ain’t So
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What Scientists Know That Ain’t So

"It's not what we don't know that prevents us from succeeding; it's what we know that just ain't so that is our greatest obstacle." I've seen versions of that quote…
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What Is a Model of a Model of a Model? “Climate Change”!
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What Is a Model of a Model of a Model? “Climate Change”!

One of our main themes is Uncertainty. In short, there is not enough of it, especially in Science. Which is to say, there is a surfeit of certainty. We drown…
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Outsourcing Our Protection Made Us Weak
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Outsourcing Our Protection Made Us Weak

It's too bad we didn't accept the woke's offer to defund the police. They never thought their slogan through, and we should have closed with them before they had the…
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Here’s How They Say Conservatives Are Destroying Science
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Here’s How They Say Conservatives Are Destroying Science

My favorite headline of late is from Stat, which I'll reveal in a brief moment. First, as I was discovering that headline, I saw the site's top crawl, which asked…
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First Look At The FBI Crime Stats For 2022: I Don’t Even Have To Explain Per Capita
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First Look At The FBI Crime Stats For 2022: I Don’t Even Have To Explain Per Capita

The FBI released its crime report for 2022, and I thought it instructive for us to examine homicide numbers. Homicides from 1985--2022. Now it is, or should be, obvious that…
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Physicist Discovers He Has No Free Will: Chooses To Write Book To Say He Cannot Make Choices
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Physicist Discovers He Has No Free Will: Chooses To Write Book To Say He Cannot Make Choices

Robert Sapolsky, a Stanford academic, took decades---decades, he says---to conclude he does not have free will. He chose now as the time to tell us of his decades-long, fruitless search…
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Experts Addle Kids’ Minds Over “Climate Change”
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Experts Addle Kids’ Minds Over “Climate Change”

Question from Anon: Why are the left so afraid of climate change? What is they want to preserve exactly? The whole concept doesn't pass the simplest credibility check. They want…
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New Paper Claiming Biological Sex A Fiction Has Normie Academics Pretending To Be Shocked
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New Paper Claiming Biological Sex A Fiction Has Normie Academics Pretending To Be Shocked

A new peer-reviewed paper is making normie, which is to say not fully woke, academics to say "Yikes!". The existence of this paper, as you'll see, adds another shovelful of…
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  1. Briggs on Sports Betting Is An Excellent Way To Lose MoneyJanuary 13, 2026

    Anon. I believe you'll find they are the same. I did a little shorthand by first taking the absolute value…

  2. Anonymous on Sports Betting Is An Excellent Way To Lose MoneyJanuary 13, 2026

    Errata: your moneyline formula should have (x - 100) in the denominator for -x.

  3. Dana on Sports Betting Is An Excellent Way To Lose MoneyJanuary 12, 2026

    I was cured of buying lotto tickets about 40 years ago when a Brisbane newspaper published an article about gambling,…

  4. John M on Register Your Predictions For 2026!January 12, 2026

    1. Substack stops copying social media on their homepage and when they realize Substack is for people who want to…

  5. Brian (bulaoren) on Sports Betting Is An Excellent Way To Lose MoneyJanuary 12, 2026

    It's even worse; "Handicap" is now a forbidden term.

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