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Insanity & Doom Update XIV
Regular readers will notice the weekly Doom pieces are becoming slightly dated. This is because there is so much doom in any week I can't fit all of the week's…
Posted inClass Statistics
Free Data Science Class: Predictive Case Study 1, Part III
You must review: Part I, II. Not reviewing is like coming to class late and saying "What did I miss?" Note the New & Improved title! Here are the main…
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Predictive Probability Resources, Why Frequentism Fails & Uncertainty
From the mailbag, reader I.W. writes: Dear Professor, I represent social science (but of a priori bent), and I recently got really hooked on frequentialism. After all, prof. Mises employed…
Posted inPhilosophy
Machines Can’t Learn (Universals): The Abacus As Brain Part II
Read Our Intellects Are Not Computers: The Abacus As Brain Part I first. Machines can learn, all right. But they can't learn like us. Machines cannot apprehend universals, ideas of…
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics
Every Result Of Unsupervised Learning Is Correct; Or, All Learning Is Supervised
The real point I wish to make is that there is no such thing as unsupervised learning; or, stated another way, Truth exists; or, stated another way, every solution to…
Posted inPhilosophy
Vatican Analyzes The Difference Between Humans And Robots
Soon a robot will ask you if you want fries with that. Computer screens already do, in some locales. How does that make you feel? Hungry? That could be taken…
Posted inBook review Statistics
A Deep Philosophical Account Of Probability
Another review of Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics, this one taken from an Amazon customer. It was 7 or 8 years ago when I was sitting in…
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Statistical Models CANNOT Show Cause, But EVERYBODY Thinks They Can. Hence the Replication CRISIS
Please pass this on to ANY researcher who uses statistics. Pretty please. With sugar on top. Like I say below, it's far far far far far past time to cease…