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Combinatorial Explosion: Theory Is Worse Than You Thought
A lot of kids have alphabet blocks. Twenty six wooden squares with the letters of the alphabet on them. One way to arrange them is just like in the song,…
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How Many Times Must You Shoot To Be 95% Sure Of Hitting Your Target At Least Once?
Why do cops, and home and shop owners, empty their guns when shooting at bad guys? Another way to ask this is our title: How Many Times Must You Shoot…
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The Randomized In Randomized Controlled Trials Is Pure Superstition; Bad Magic
Why You Need To Read This My dear readers, a complex subject today, presented in the guise of a book review. We are increasingly beset by lunatic psychotic sociopathic rulers…
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The World’s Best 100% Guaranteed Unpredictable Perfect Random Number Generator
"Random" numbers are in hot demand. They're needed, for instance, in cryptography, to keep things like your bank account secure, and in science, where they're used in simulating complex systems.…
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
My Dearest Supporters, Loyal Readers & Despised Enemies, As I said the other day, 2023 was a Transition Year. Things happened, events occurred, but none of these events had the…
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Happy New Year!
My Dearest Supporters, Loyal Readers & Despised Enemies, Happy New Year, my friends! The Class has begun! Thirty-four episodes in the can, and counting. Of course, my video making skills…
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How Not To Think Like A Bayesian Rationalist
Lisping Rationalists When I read people like Eliezer Yudkowsky and Scott Alexander it becomes clear to me how the French could have built a Temple of Reason during The Terror.…
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Fixing College: Hit Them In The Money, Replace Their Prestige
If you're short of time, and know about the past---which as of last week is now historical---failures of higher education, skip When It Was It Bad and jump right to…
