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Everybody Has A Mental Disease: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5

I am so far Up North that I heard a radio interview with Uncle Ted Nugnet on the best kinds of arrowheads to bring down feral pigs. Internet still only…

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Correlation and Causality: Have A Drink, Get Rich

I am down to one brief internet connection daily, found, intermittently, at a coffee shop in town. I apologize for lack of or slowness in answering questions. According to the…

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Three Cards: One Black, One Red, One Half & Half

Just a short one today, all. I'm heading further North. So far from civilization that when I was a boy, it was a cause to celebrate when a cit thirty…

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New Tax To Force Citizens To Pay For Water: Prediction

Away back in March, I predicted that if Obamacare passed, we citizens would eventually foot the bill for homeopathic treatments. This evidence for this forecast was inductive, in two parts.…

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A Time To Celebrate!

I am, once more, reliving my Air Force days. I am strapped into a seat designed for a midget, jetting across the Wild Blue towards the shores of Lake Michigan,…

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Replacements for Representation: Bayes From the Ground Up

A primary justification for Bayesian probability is De Finetti's representation theorem, which is stated like this. You are to observe a sequence of 0s and 1s, "failures" and "successes" if…

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Finitism, Physics, Cellular Automata: The Universe as Logic

In no way is this article meant to be complete. It is more in the way of musings---a crude introduction---so that we can see where to go. Is the universe…

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Postmodernism and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science

Since I am, by nature, a compassionate individual, I had been thinking of how we might Sokal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). It is for their…

Johnno on We Either Learn To Suffer Like Russians, Or We Are Lost — Guest Post by Ianto WattOctober 7, 2024
It is interesting, there is common cause and bonds in those who learn to suffer together. Persecution does tend to…
Johnno on Scientists Induce Apoplexy (In Me) In Attempting To Tie Stroke To “Climate Change”October 7, 2024
We should create a paper that proves Climate Change is keeping more people alive in spite of the clot shots.…
JerryR on We Either Learn To Suffer Like Russians, Or We Are Lost — Guest Post by Ianto WattOctober 7, 2024
Ianto has got it wrong! His thesis is about power, which has yet to introduce much good into the modern…
John M on We Either Learn To Suffer Like Russians, Or We Are Lost — Guest Post by Ianto WattOctober 7, 2024
So, is ther a nickname for Vladimir?
McChuck on Class 23: An Infinity Of Hypotheses! (Bayes)October 7, 2024
Once again, with feeling: THE MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY!