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Class 23: An Infinity Of Hypotheses! (Bayes)
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Class 23: An Infinity Of Hypotheses! (Bayes)

This post is really for those adept at math, a necessary avenue to understand this subject entirely. Most will want to skip the video. BUT DO READ THE LECTURE. IT'S…
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Scientists Induce Apoplexy (In Me) In Attempting To Tie Stroke To “Climate Change”
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Scientists Induce Apoplexy (In Me) In Attempting To Tie Stroke To “Climate Change”

In my free and it-don't-cost-nuthin' class notes Breaking the Law of Averages (pdf), I have a homework question which goes something like this: Explain why, no matter the goodness of…
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Covid Is The Boogerman of Maladies: Now It Causes Cognitive Confusion Claim Researchers
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Covid Is The Boogerman of Maladies: Now It Causes Cognitive Confusion Claim Researchers

So these researchers said the worse infection of covid you had the more you now act like our dear President: In a multiple regression analysis, participants who had recovered from…
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Lesson 13: No “Fair” Dice & Jaynes Symmetry
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Lesson 13: No “Fair” Dice & Jaynes Symmetry

Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science Video Links: YouTube Twitter Rumble Bitchute (often a day or so behind, for whatever reason) The Infamous Coin Flipping Machine! Link to…
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Class 6: Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science: Probability’s Entrance!
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Class 6: Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science: Probability’s Entrance!

Link to all Classes. Video Links: YouTube Twitter Rumble Part 1 Rumble Part 2 (Rumble only allows files of < 2 GB) Bitchute HOMEWORK 1. Finish that last step in…
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Class 2: Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science: Quid Est Veritas
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Class 2: Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science: Quid Est Veritas

Link to all Classes. Video (Hagfish: I was in such a hurry, I forgot my jacket.) Links: YouTube Twitter Rumble It still feels like I'm rushing things, but the videos…
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Questions On Statistical Practice Answered
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Questions On Statistical Practice Answered

Forgive me my friends, because of reasons I am terribly far behind on everything. Regular posting to resume soon. While back in a post, I was ranting about something like…
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Making Up Data To Prove Models?
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Making Up Data To Prove Models?

There is this idea in statistics called the "bootstrap." The idea is not crazy, but it's not quite right either. Works like this: data comes in, and usually some parameterized…
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  1. Eric Kay Sci Fi on $7.11 at 7:11 PM on 7/11 at 7/11: What Are The Chances?July 24, 2026

    Thanks for the write-up. Thinking about things in the way of a probability distribution has always helped me, but also…

  2. Philip Rogan on $7.11 at 7:11 PM on 7/11 at 7/11: What Are The Chances?July 24, 2026

    Brian, good comment. A coincidence is only a coincidence to the person to which the coincidence occurred.

  3. John Pate on $7.11 at 7:11 PM on 7/11 at 7/11: What Are The Chances?July 23, 2026

    Now do Synchronicity.

  4. Brian (bulaoren) on $7.11 at 7:11 PM on 7/11 at 7/11: What Are The Chances?July 23, 2026

    If a 7/11 sale occurrs in a forest, and nobody is around to document it, does it make a sound?…

  5. Willis Eschenbach on Caution Against The Precautionary Principle: Interview with Jaap HanekampJuly 23, 2026

    Thanks as always, Matt. I'd be interested in your (or anyone's) comments on my post below about the Precautionary Principle.…

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