Posted inFun
I Never Received About 15% Of Your Emails
I first describe a bug at the blog, a blog bug, and then show us a few emails we missed. Wordpress Bug & Emails I was cleaning up the blog…
Posted inStatistics
AI Needs To Feed On Fresh Meat, Or It Dies
In Asimov's original Foundation, a novel set amidst a fading and decaying Empire, one saturated in hubris and self-esteem, we meet Lord Dorwin, a celebrated scholar from the Galactic Empire,…
Posted inBook review Philosophy
Why The Many Worlds (Multiverse) Interpretation Of Quantum Mechanics Is Wrong: A New Objection
UPDATE I caused great confusion by putting the word "multiverse" in the title, when there is a whole other theory called "the" multiverse. Yet I did this because Hossenfelder herself,…
Posted inStatistics
The Difference In Means & Why P-Values Should Not Be Used — Excerpt From The Lake Michigan Dialogues
"Say, Briggs. Since you're Statistician to the Stars!, explain to me how I can tell if two means are different in a simple way that even I can understand." You…
Posted inStatistics
Canada’s Science Coronadoom Model Discovers Canada’s Science Saved 800 Thousand Lives
Repeat after me: all models only say what they are told to say. Here it is, right from the hole of Theresa Tam (you recall it was that Canadian official's…
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Posted inStatistics
“Why Didn’t Use You The [fill in the blank] Model On That NZ Data, Briggs?”
"Hey, Briggs. I saw your take on the leaked New Zealand vaccine data. Interesting. But why didn't you use [Insert My Favorite Statistics Model Here]?" [Blog, Substack mirror.] I'll tell…
Posted inStatistics
Register Your Predictions For 2023!
My Dear Friends, and, yes, Enemies, Happy New Year. As has been our tradition these many years, it’s time to register our predictions for the coming year. We looked at…
Posted inPhilosophy
The Physics Of Blessings: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification
This belongs to the realm of supposition. I do not know if it's true, only that it seems possible. I do know that there must be a "Reenchantment of the…
