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A Deep Philosophical Account Of Probability
Another review of Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics, this one taken from an Amazon customer. It was 7 or 8 years ago when I was sitting in…
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Question Of The Moment: What Can Trump Do To Shore Up The Right?
https://twitter.com/Outsideness/status/796563546788233216 Today we ask Nick Land's question, given above, which is (if you can't see it), "So, how does America use this 5-10 year breathing space to build in some…
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Open Discussion: Universities Are Dead, But Still Haven’t Dropped
Today, an open discussion, with the promise of much more to come, on the astonishing amazing I-can't-believe-he-said-that article "Dear Parents: Everything You Need to Know About Your Son and Daughter's…
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Carbon Fibre Masculinity, Homosociality, Gendered Surfaces, & Idiot Academics
Tell you right up front that the only way to be sure of solving the crisis in higher education is to nuke universities from orbit and then salt the grounds…
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Predictions For 2017—Register Yours Today!
Once more unto the breach! We did well last year, but we had the advantage of a neat unambiguous set of predictions all could make, i.e. the United States primaries…
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Armed Students Take Over Cornell University
A group of militant black students at Cornell "occupied" Willard Straight Hall. They were armed with shotguns and other firearms with which they threatened violence. Why? To protest Cornell's "racist…
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Nature: The Scientists Who Support Trump — I’m Quoted
Sara Reardon from Nature magazine, the most widely read science journal in the world, put the word out: what working scientist would admit publicly to supporting Trump? Why wouldn't any…
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Eastern Michigan To Install Zampolit In Every Classroom To Maintain Ideological Purity
Maintaining ideological purity requires constant vigilance. The Commissars in the old Union of Soviet Socialist Republics knew this well. This is why they assigned zampolit, or political officers, to serve…
