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The Physicist Brian Greene Does Not Exist — And Neither Do You — If The Nonexistent Greene Is Right
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The Physicist Brian Greene Does Not Exist — And Neither Do You — If The Nonexistent Greene Is Right

The excerpt of a collection of sounds from a thing which is called Brian Greene, but which isn't, is here: https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/1247891248783831047 The full "interview", which isn't really an interview, because…
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Coronavirus Update XXV: The Suppression Of Hydroxychloroquine & Other Conspiracies
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Coronavirus Update XXV: The Suppression Of Hydroxychloroquine & Other Conspiracies

The first section of this are fun conspiracies to highlight the political crisis. The second section are the numbers showing the medical crisis is over. The third section discusses the…
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AI Getting Too Good At Predicting Crime, So It’s Being Purged
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AI Getting Too Good At Predicting Crime, So It’s Being Purged

If all we know about an American male is that he is an American male, we can use data on observed rates American males committed crimes to predict that this…
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Coronavirus Update XXI: Calm Down! Record Testing Is Why There Are Record “Cases”
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Coronavirus Update XXI: Calm Down! Record Testing Is Why There Are Record “Cases”

OHNOWE'REALLGOINGTODIE---AGAIN! Look at this plot, the number of daily COVID tests in the US, according to the COVID-19 tracking project. So far, since the start of the insanity, there have…
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Z-Scores Are Misleading & Create Panic: Or, How Not To Compare Pandemics
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Z-Scores Are Misleading & Create Panic: Or, How Not To Compare Pandemics

A number of people panicked to the point their minds have turned to quivering jelly, angry at my calmness, have been emailing and tweeting me the equivalent of "Oh yeah,…
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Coronavirus Update XI — Robbing The Cemeteries To Pad Death Totals
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Coronavirus Update XI — Robbing The Cemeteries To Pad Death Totals

All the good stuff, caveats, code, data sources and explanations are linked, some in Update III, and the most important in Update II, Update IV, Update V, Update VI, Update…
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Coronavirus Update VIII: Blown Forecasts & Peak Performance
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Coronavirus Update VIII: Blown Forecasts & Peak Performance

All the good stuff, caveats, code, data sources and explanations are linked, some in Update III, and the most important in Update II, Update IV, Update V, Update VI, Update…
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Coronavirus Update VII — We’ve Got Models (Update)
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Coronavirus Update VII — We’ve Got Models (Update)

All the good stuff, caveats, code, data sources and explanations are linked, some in Update III, and the most important in Update II, Update IV, Update V, Update VI, and…
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