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Stream: Our New Satanic Moment
Today's post is at The Stream: Our New Satanic Moment: A seemingly paradoxical trend of "enlightenment" and brutality. See below for important caveats. These once United States have had Satanic…
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Preface to Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics
The book is now at a 15% discount at Amazon (I apologize for the price). Buy today. And buy again tomorrow! This will be linked permanently on the book's official…
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Number 1 Book In Epistemology & In Logic! Get It While It’s Hot!
It's probably gone by now, but for a little while my new book, Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics, was "#1 New Release in Epistemology" then "#1 New…
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Infinity & Probability: A Return To The Finite
There is a discussion of infinity and an argument to return to the discrete and finite in my upcoming book Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics. Infinity is…
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The Bayesian Metaphor Can Do More Harm Than Good: Update
Quoting from a post on vampires, "In Bayesian inference, you start with some initial beliefs (called 'Bayesian priors' or just 'priors'), and then you 'update' them as you receive new…
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Multiverses, Infinities, Probability & The Deadly Sin of Reification — WMBriggs Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZffCuj9ZHA Download MP3 June is Probability Month here at WMBriggs.com, mostly because I'll be teaching (I'll be in Ithaca the 12th to 24th) and want to keep from being distracted…
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Stream: Pretend to Believe In Free Will Or Else You Will Make Bad Choices
Today's post is at The Stream: Pretend to Believe In Free Will Or Else You Will Make Bad Choices. I want to be nice about this, but believing that we…
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WMBriggs.com Podcast 13 April 2016 — Equality!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nX43bgWUn8 GOOD NEWS! I've restored the broadcast! Both YouTube and MP3 work! Use Player.fm. Or subscribe (paste this into iTunes or elsewhere): https://www.wmbriggs.com/feed/?category=podcasts As the eminent (now deceased) mathematician Danny…