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Insurance Isn’t Insurance & Why It’s All So Crazy
We did this years ago, but it's time for a refresh for new readers. You make a bet with a bookie. You don't want X to happen, where "X" can…
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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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Class 40: Welcome To Cause!
This is it. We have reached our one true purpose: understanding cause. Cause is much richer than ordinarily thought in science. But it is everything. Today we begin one of…
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Bringing Order To Disordered Views Of Entropy
This is the second post reviewing Sabine Hossenfelder's new book Existential Physics. First is my criticism of Many Worlds. If you are short of time, skip to the bottom today.…
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See You On The Other Side
Half the country will be unhappy late tonight. Or in a few days, when the last of the new votes are "discovered". Yet be of good cheer! This was all…
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How To Gamble If You Must
Listen to the podcast at YouTube, BitChute, or Gab. Our title comes from a famous book by Lester Dubbins and Leonard Savage, which appeared at the beginning of the Bayesian…
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The Multiverse Hides The Problem It Was Supposed To Solve, And Calls It Solved
Let's end the review of Sabine Hossenfelder's book. We did some already: Emergence, Entropy, and Many Worlds. With this post, we'll have covered the most interesting topics. Old Hoss, and…
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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…
