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Sunday, July 26, 2020
Cherry Picking of Data: The Achilles' Heel of Bayes' Rule
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We are awash in data. In the age of Facebook/Amazon/Google, the amount of data generated, analyzed, and acted upon is beyond comprehension....
Thursday, July 23, 2020
Democrats and the God of the Narrative
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People involved together in a crime must necessarily lie to cover their tracks, and to lie effectively enough to convince a jury, they must ...
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Periodic Phenomena: The Limits of Fourier Series and Climate Prediction
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The climate debates have raged for the last 25 years with each side calling the other nasty names: 'alarmists', 'deniers', ...
The Dangers of Ersatz Religion
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The German word 'Ersatz' means 'substitute' in English, a term picked up by psychologists to describe what happens when peop...
Saturday, June 28, 2014
The Idiocy of Timetables in Armed Conflict
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The recent sudden collapse of large swaths of territory in Iraq, falling under control of Islamist State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), is a test...
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Phil Robertson
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In all the hoopla about Phil Robertson's remark concerning the bible's attitude toward homosexuality, few seem to have noticed that ...
Monday, July 8, 2013
Lone Ranger a Dud
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This movie was a waste of time and money. Although the cinematography was good and the sporadic laughs OK, the whole tenor of the movie was...
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