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I’m No Longer At Cornell
I got fired about a month ago. This would ordinarily fall under the categories, "About time" or "So?", and thus it is not worth mentioning. Except for this. I had…
Posted inPhilosophy
The Coming Metaphysic
Etienne Gilson's The Unity of Philosophical Experience was recommended to me by Fr Rickert (whom regular readers will recognize) and I in turn recommend it to you. The book was…
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Headline: We Used Terrible Science to Justify Smoking Bans. Amen: We Did
When they used to tell me I would shorten my life ten years by smoking, they little knew the devotee they were wasting their puerile word upon---they little knew how…
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Big Data, Big Predictions — Big Deal!
The title, you'll be shocked to learn, is sarcastic. You'll forgive the tone after reading NBC's article "Big Data's Big Misses: 2016 Was a Bad Year For Predictions", which opens…
Posted inCulture Statistics
Science Asks: Why Are Angry Atheists Annoying?
What's more annoying than an atheist who harangues passersby about "rationality"? Easy answer: a scientist who announces a discovery about human behavior that was known by everybody since Adam. Our…
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Chapter 10 of Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics FREE for New Subscribers!
Today a deal so unbelievable that it can't be believed! No, wait. In fact, the deal was so unbelievable that it couldn't be believed. This follows logically: that which is…
Posted inBook review Statistics
Uncertainty Reviewed Again: It is such a good book, and I recommend it without reservation
Don Aitkin, author of Moving On: A Tale of the Millennium, also available here, and feted here, and reviewed here, has reviewed my Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability and…
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Prince Metternich Predicts Our Future From 1834 & Nails It
I saw a link to an interesting looking article entitled "Conversations With Prince Metternich" from our friend Nick B. Steves, clicked it and jumped right in. IT was in the…