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Larry goes to the Market
This has been making its way round the 'net---by far the best remix.
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Podcast Lecture #3: Understanding Statistics and Probability
[podcast]https://www.wmbriggs.com/audio/wmbriggs_com_lecture_0003.mp3[/podcast] Today's lecture: Review Logic: If our premises are that we have a six-sided die that we'll toss, and that only one side will show on that toss, and that…
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Windows 7? Why not Linux, instead?
My logs show that only a paltry 3.6% of readers have reached Complete Enlightenment. The bad news is that 83.1% of you live a hellish existence and suffer regular torments…
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Not Evil, Just Wrong reviewed: Guest Post by Bernie
Today's guest post is by our very own Bernie, longtime reader and contributer. Too confused and too nuanced to be effective Phelim McAleer's and Ann McElhinney's Not Evil, Just Wrong…
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Full Disclosure, Anita Dunn, and Fox News: A Fairness Proposal for Journalists
In the United States, we have several major news outlets. On television: ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, MSNBC, CNN, and Fox. There are also several national-ish newspapers (and a diminishing number…
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Podcast Lecture #2: Understanding Statistics and Probability
[podcast]https://www.wmbriggs.com/audio/wmbriggs_com_lecture_0002.mp3[/podcast] On today's lecture: Quick review All knowledge is conditional on evidence, which eventually leads back to our intuitions. The steps in an argument that make it valid are also…
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Podcast Radio Show – Episode #4: Belief in Climate Models
[podcast]https://www.wmbriggs.com/audio/wmbriggs_com_14oct2009_0004.mp3[/podcast] On today's episode: Science and skeptical bloggers A small article in last week's Science magazine frets that skeptical bloggers are teasing climate scientists over their failed predictions. Bloggers are…
F train Blues, Michael Palin is proud, and some misuses of statistics
Just back from my trip. I'll go through the comments from last week's posts later today and catch up. Meanwhile, here are a few interesting stories. That F'ing train! You've…