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Sneak Peek of Book Cover
Here, by the guy who does Wayward Robot, is the front cover for the book (which should---with hope---be out of my hands by the end of this week).
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I would reluctantly serve
A regular reader sent this in: click here. This feature been making it around the 'net?
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Peer Review Not Perfect: Shocking Finding
The way peer review works is broken, according to a new finding by John Ioannidis and colleagues in their article "Why Current Publication Practices May Distort Science". The authors liken…
Posted inFun Philosophy
Looks like an own goal to me
Friend of humanity, meteorologist, and philosopher Tom Hamill reminds us of this clip: Which reminds me to this clip, one of the very few songs the lyrics of which I…
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Why probability isn’t relative frequency: redux
(Pretend, if you have, that you haven't read my first weak attempt. I'm still working on this, but this gives you the rough idea, and I didn't want to leave…
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John McCain will win
I am wrong about a lot of things (see my essay "Let them Fail"), and it is a truism to say that I might be wrong about this, but I…
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An American Carol: review
Go and see it. It's far from perfect, not always hilarious, cringe-making in parts, but worth two hours of time. Many of the jokes are groaners, but these are usually…
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Why probability isn’t relative frequency
(This is a modified excerpt from my forthcoming---he said hopefully---book, on the subject of why probability cannot be relative frequency. This is to be paired with the essay on why…
