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Resist Corona Tyranny!
World War II buffs will recall the story where General Patton, about the launch a counter-offensive in the Battle of the Bulge, was called into Eisenhower's office. With Ike was…
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Why We Can’t Use Shiva Ayyadurai The Inventor Of Email’s Fraud Analysis: Updates
About fraud in general, we know it exists, we know our rulers admit it exists, or used to. We need to be careful about claims of fraud now, putting forth…
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Notes On AI Accuracy (Facial Recognition)
Here's a tweet (addressed to Judea Pearl), "If you could get rid of all the spurious non causal correlations in a machine-learning model, you would be left with only the…
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Scientists On Average Growing Dumber: 11,000 Scientists Want You To Die To SAVE THE PLANET
We talked many times of the expansion effect. A small core of experts, real and true great (or at least good) minds on some subject, are injected by design with…
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More “Racist” AI: Blacks Pegged As Bigger “Haters” Than Whites
Ezra Klein, lead explainer over at Vox, needs to have direction of cause explained to him. He tweeted "leading AI models for processing hate speech were one-and-a-half times more likely…
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics
Reality-Based Probability & Statistics: Ending The Tyranny Of Parameters!
Here it is! The one, the only, the peer-reviewed (and therefore true) "Reality-Based Probability & Statistics: Solving the Evidential Crisis" (the link is to the pdf, which is 11 MB;…
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Curse of The MINIMAX!
Make a list of things that might happen. Label this list X_1, X_2, X_3, ..., X_p, where "p" is for possibility. Each of these X_i is a thing that can…
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The Epidemiologist Fallacy Strikes Again — Pesticides & Autism
Long-time readers will recall the epidemiologist fallacy is a shotgun marriage of the ecological fallacy and wee p-values. Make that and/or confidence intervals. For confidence intervals are equivalent to p-values…
