Briggs

I Also Declare The Bayesian vs. Frequentist Debate Over For Data Scientists

I stole the title, adding the word "also", from an article by Rafael Irizarry at Simply Stats (tweeted by Diego Kuonen). First, brush clearing. Data scientists. Sounds like galloping bureaucratic…

Culture

NYC Protesters: ‘What Do We Want? Dead Cops!’ What They’ll Get Is Something Else

https://twitter.com/NYCityAlerts/status/543987028166455296 "Comedy" (or perhaps "farce") is a good word to describe the human predicament given events like Sony (the hacked company which revealed emails with lame jokes) studio head and…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Nothing Is Predicated Univocally Of God & Other Things

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Perhaps a…

Culture Fun

The Reimaginings Of Exodus And Noah Inspires Moviemakers—And You!

https://twitter.com/mattstat/status/543559693592182785 John Nolte doesn't like Ridley Scott's Exodus: Gods and Kings. ...Scott makes a fool of himself. DeMille used the ancient biblical tale to tell a universal story about human…

Culture Philosophy Podcast Statistics

Podcast: Peer Review, Bob & Ray Do Statistics, Academic Calls For Killing Of (Post-Birth) Babies

[podcast]https://www.wmbriggs.com/audio/wmbriggs_com_12dec2014_0006.mp3[/podcast] Show Notes Wired's PubPeer article. PubPeer.com itself. PubPeer's discussion of "Macroscopic Observability of Spinorial Sign Changes under 2π Rotations". Bob and Ray can be found at, inter alia, the…

Philosophy

Uncle Mike on In Which An Atheist Becomes Sputteringly Angry Over Theist’s ArgumentNovember 12, 2025
Brother Cary, look harder. Everything you see reveals God. The complexity of your eye reveals God. The act of seeing,…
McChuck on In Which An Atheist Becomes Sputteringly Angry Over Theist’s ArgumentNovember 12, 2025
CDC: You have been given an opportunity. You have vociferously declined it. You have made your choice, which is the…
Brian (bulaoren) on The Dysgenics Of IVFNovember 12, 2025
Back in the 1990s, progressives had a hero named Dr. Jack Kevorkian (aka " Dr. Death") Good old Jack might…
JRob on The Dysgenics Of IVFNovember 12, 2025
Other writers also have pointed out that IVF occurs when all the average sperm have an equal chance at conception,…
shawn marshall on The Dysgenics Of IVFNovember 12, 2025
it is unnatural - isn't it. You can have it all baby. If you conceive kill it until you are…

I Also Declare The Bayesian vs. Frequentist Debate Over For Data Scientists

NYC Protesters: ‘What Do We Want? Dead Cops!’ What They’ll Get Is Something Else

Summary Against Modern Thought: Nothing Is Predicated Univocally Of God & Other Things

The Reimaginings Of Exodus And Noah Inspires Moviemakers—And You!

Podcast: Peer Review, Bob & Ray Do Statistics, Academic Calls For Killing Of (Post-Birth) Babies

Pascal’s Pensées, A Tour: III

On The Attribution Of A Single Event To Climate Change

Columbia Law School Kiddies ‘Traumatized’, Exams Postponed: Update Harvard Joins