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Podcast Lecture #5: Four Probability Rules

[podcast]https://www.wmbriggs.com/audio/wmbriggs_com_lecture_0005.mp3[/podcast] Today's Lecture: Difficulties I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10, which included a new version of Audacity 1.3.9, a persnickety package that keeps locking up. Word on the 'net is…

Statistics

The Five Worst Enemies of All Humanity

A guy named Adam Sacks---as in two---published a list of the five worst enemies of all mankind. George W. Bush is there, of course. But then, he was put down…

Fun

The Navy’s Phantom Pooper

With all the yock and chatter that's been floating around about the military lately, I thought it would be fun to tell an uplifting story. My dad was an electrician's…

Statistics

Conditional probability, Islam, and terrorism screening

Suppose you heard on the radio a breaking news story: "Shots reported at Fort Hood Army base. Several are dead, many more are wounded. Eyewitnesses claim this is an act…

Culture

Vacuous Verisimilitude; Or, V has arrived

How did this show get past the ABC censors? How did the folks in Hollywood---good Progressives, all---let this program sneak onto the air? Were movie studio heads so distracted by…

Culture

Secret House health care provision

Rumor has it that Nancy Pelosi slipped in an addendum to the massive House health bill that calls for government-paid access to cosmetic surgery for female congress members with low…

Fun

Evolutionary medicine: my death rate delta v finally goes negative

Apologies for the slowness in answering comments and lack of podcasts this week, but I was dying and my voice was shot. Gross talk alert: read no further if the…

The declining popularity of the World Series

Media firm Magna research today published its estimates of the audiences for the World Series from 1991. They broke the data down by audience per game in each series (of…

hudbwu on Look Here, @elonmusk, What Mendacious Hack Or Incompetent Flack Murdered This Tweet?April 26, 2024
Elon is all for show. Bernard over at Moon of Alabama was suppressed before Elon took over. Then his subscribers…
Cary D Cotterman on Student Protests To End After Finals: TWIDApril 26, 2024
I'd buy a ticket to watch them unleash water canons on these camps.
Hun on Student Protests To End After Finals: TWIDApril 26, 2024
I am skeptical about the nose-ring girl. I suspect the whole "incident" was simply a propaganda skit to show that…
Milton Hathaway on Student Protests To End After Finals: TWIDApril 26, 2024
"Yet it is curious that in many places these woke students were rousted by Regime forces." Yes, indeed, very curious,…
John on Look Here, @elonmusk, What Mendacious Hack Or Incompetent Flack Murdered This Tweet?April 26, 2024
I once stayed at a villa in Sorrento owned by a retired pizza chef who told me that, back in…