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Why There Are (Probably) No UFOs: “Climate Change”
May 20, 2026
Creating Microbial Monsters To Terrorize Ourselves
May 18, 2026
Class 89: The Measure Most Modelers Forget: Skill Examples
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The Shocking Conclusion of the HR Trilemma!
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The HR Trilemma: Which Door Decides Your Fate?
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How Experts Use “Calamities” to Find Official Victims & Gain Power
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Richard Dawkins, The Big Muscles Fallacy & AI Pachinko
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Class 88: The Most Neglected Concept: Skill
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The Red-Blue Button Dilemma & Its Surprising Answer
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UFO Reports About To Blast Off!
April 27, 2026
Class 87: Calibration & Conformal Prediction: Examples
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Noticing Differences Between Races Does Not Pay
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What Are The Chances Of All These Scientists Dying, Killed, Or Going Missing?
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Class 86: Calibration & Conformal Prediction: Theory
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How A Miracle Turns Mundane
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Contest Winner Announced!
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Trump’s Last Stand: Mea Culpa, Redux — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
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Class 85: Proper Scores of Model Goodness
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Proof!
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Justice Ketanji Roars
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Why There Are (Probably) No UFOs: “Climate Change”

Posted by By Briggs May 20, 2026
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Creating Microbial Monsters To Terrorize Ourselves

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Wolf Blitzer interviews Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill

Repost Who could have guessed that a confessed mass murder and terrorist would have broken the law once more? It is reported that Mohmed al-Megrahi has jumped bail, thus embarrassing…
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Homogenization of temperature series: Part V, The real Grand Finale

Be sure to see: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V Much of what we discussed---but not all---is in this picture. Right click and open it in…
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Homogenization of temperature series: Part IV

Be sure to see: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V How much patience do you have left? On and on and on about the fundamentals, and…
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Pajama’s Media: Global warming accelerating once again

Surf on over to Pajamas Media for today's update. "I'm from the U.N. and I'm here to help."
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Homogenization of temperature series: Part III

Be sure to see: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V We still have work to do. This is not simple stuff, and if we try and…
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Schedule, Taiwan, More Homogenization

Landed in Taipei last night, after a bumpy fourteen-hour flight. I think the angry Air I teased last week was taking its revenge. From now, I'll have nothing but nice…
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Homogenization of temperature series: Part II

Be sure to see: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V Aside: counterfactuals A counterfactual is statement saying what would be the case if its conditional were…
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Homogenization of temperature series: Part I

Be sure to see: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V Introduction Time to get technical. First, surf over to Willis Eschenbach's gorgeous piece of statistical detective…
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