February 17, 2025 – William M. Briggs

Class 39: Trust Your Equations! (Bayes)

Chant this until it becomes part of your soul: There is no such thing as unconditional probability. Once you have that, endless "problems" people have "discovered" about probability vanish. Today…

hudbwu on Academics: Achieve Sustainability by Easing Population to 4 Billion by 2200August 6, 2026
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N.S. Palmer on The Impossibility of Proposition NationsAugust 6, 2026
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Brian (bulaoren) on Academics: Achieve Sustainability by Easing Population to 4 Billion by 2200August 6, 2026
@Leonard Remember, the country Pol Pot led was called; "Democratic Kampuchea".
spetzer86 on Academics: Achieve Sustainability by Easing Population to 4 Billion by 2200August 6, 2026
I hope everyone understands that 4 billion is a bunch better than the 400 million estimate that can be found.…