If you ask a physicist "Why can't objects go faster than light? That there should be a limit doesn't seem right to me", he will abuse you. He'll start off…
Thanks to reader Victor Domin for pointing us to the paper "On teaching mathematics" by V.I. Arnold. Here's an extended quote on models (do read the whole thing). At this…
Hire Me The government doesn't have a monopoly on research funding. But if you add in the funds of so-called non-governmental organizations---which, as has been noted, announce by their name…
Some have the idea that there should be a "weight of evidence" that is separate from probability, or in addition to it. Probability judgments are held more or less strongly,…
Here's a tweet (addressed to Judea Pearl), "If you could get rid of all the spurious non causal correlations in a machine-learning model, you would be left with only the…
Previous post. The world, Reality, is a much richer place than most of us know. Our good saint proves that angels and demons carrying out God's will is possible. THAT…
Item House passes Equality Act to protect against discrimination The bill, known as the "Equality Act," would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and other civil rights laws to…
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will soon sign two controversial Bills into law. The first will classify "anti-Semitism" as "hate speech", and the second will do the same for "anti-Christian" speech.…