The aftermath isn’t yet upon us. We are still in the in situ-math. But I thought it would be fun anyway to make some definite, testable predictions of what will happen given […]
The CRU “climategate” proxy code: a primer
I’m just getting into the CRU code: it’s a lot of material and everything I say here about it is preliminary. Some of you will know what I’m going to say about […]
The University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit Hacking
Be sure to also see this story! And this story a follow-up See also see this story on proxies I often write emails to pals of mine that are in shorthand, that […]
No Mammogram Screening For Healthy Women Until 50: It’s about time
Update: see also this story. The U.S. Preventive Services Task force (whatever that is), in the Annals of Internal Medicine, yesterday advised women not to begin mammogram screenings for breast cancer until […]
Politics
Bow wow Republicans make themselves look like asses when they publicly sniff and tiff over Obama’s bow of greeting to Japan’s Emperor and Mrs Emperor. Is there anything so trivial the right […]
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 that it […]
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 from birth. […]
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 of terrorism.” […]
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