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No Model Will Save Us: Pope Leo, the Miserostat, and AI’s Woke Coders
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No Model Will Save Us: Pope Leo, the Miserostat, and AI’s Woke Coders

I don't know who wrote Magnifica Humanitas, the Vatican's new encyclical on "safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence", but he (or it?) appears to not have…
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How High an IQ Must A Person Have To Be Executed?
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How High an IQ Must A Person Have To Be Executed?

In proving foresight may be vain:The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ MenGang aft agley,An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,For promis’d joy! Lennie said, "I thought you was…
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Class 90: Simple (Optimal) Decisions
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Class 90: Simple (Optimal) Decisions

Reminder: The Thursday Class is only for those interested in studying uncertainty. I don’t expect all want to read these posts. Pease don’t feel like you must. Yet, I have…
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Shocking Abortion Numbers: Death Distributions Show We’re Living Longer
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Shocking Abortion Numbers: Death Distributions Show We’re Living Longer

There were comments, hither and yon, about whether people were dying older today than they were in olden days. Some said yes, some said it was only an illusion, perhaps…
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Blessed Memorial Day; No Class; See You Wednesday
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Blessed Memorial Day; No Class; See You Wednesday

As I was scraping the frost off the windshield this morning, I thanked God for global warming, now called "climate change." For without the warmth provided by our very exhalations,…
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Why There Are (Probably) No UFOs: “Climate Change”
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Why There Are (Probably) No UFOs: “Climate Change”

Here are a few typical photographs or stills from videos provided by our most beneficent government in its recent "release" of UFO files. (You will all recall my recent UFO…
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Creating Microbial Monsters To Terrorize Ourselves
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Creating Microbial Monsters To Terrorize Ourselves

There is a claim, said to be made by a prominent "neocon" in the Trump administration, that "Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes have both been named as possible domestic terrorists".…
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Class 89: The Measure Most Modelers Forget: Skill Examples
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Class 89: The Measure Most Modelers Forget: Skill Examples

Reminder: The Thursday Class is only for those interested in studying uncertainty. I don’t expect all want to read these posts. So please don’t feel like you must. Yet, I…
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    The mathematician Richard Guy wrote a paper "The strong law of small numbers", where he said, facetiously, but also serirously:…

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    I'm looking forward to the book; warts and all the first was enlightening and fun to read.

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    I'm a big fan of LaTeX. I wrote a class package that made it into one or more of the…

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    i have your first edition which I read, pencil in hand foor the typos. Loved it anyway! Will be buying…

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