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Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Facebook and Twitter Practice Medicine Without A Licence
Both have censored actual physicians. Details.
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Monday, July 20, 2020
Thursday, July 16, 2020
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
The Acme of Romantic Noir
Black Wings Has My Angel by Elliot Chaze is a pulp heist novel from 1953. It’s both brutal and romantic. It has, and deserves, a grand reputation. It's in the tradition of The Postman Always Rings Twice. And it’s cheap!
Thursday, July 9, 2020
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Sunday, July 5, 2020
Coyne guts the Pinker mob
Jerry Coyne looks at the campaign against Steven Pinker. He guts it like a fish.
Saturday, July 4, 2020
A random example of “killed by police 2019”
This website displays a random case from a database of all police killings in the USA in 2019. It selects another case each time you reload.
Taleb Test
My point is that you cannot do "science" without knowing & rigorously applying statistics & you cannot do statistics without knowing & rigorously applying mathematical statistics & you cannot do mathematical statistics without knowing & rigorously applying probability theory.
I think this is a testable hypothesis. Ask the next research chemist you meet to explain the Carathéodory Extension Theorem.
Friday, July 3, 2020
Thursday, July 2, 2020
Bullshit from Taleb
I'd say it's an isolated demand for rigor.
In reality it’s a discrete process, and Taleb's nowhere differentiable continuous model is as much an idealization as Levitt's. Except Levitt doesn’t pretend otherwise.
I see I am not the only one to have noticed this.
Really bad.
In reality it’s a discrete process, and Taleb's nowhere differentiable continuous model is as much an idealization as Levitt's. Except Levitt doesn’t pretend otherwise.
I see I am not the only one to have noticed this.
Really bad.