Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Thus far, I have reviewed the first six chapters of Rule of Law by Tom Bingham and have identified a host of problems–logical fallacies, omissions, and blind spots–with Judge Bingham’s work. The next chapter, Chapter 7, which is devoted to … Continue reading →

Greg Byrne is the Athletics Director at the University of Alabama, while Nate Oats is the head coach of the University of Alabama’s basketball team. Two of the “student-athletes” on their squad were involved in the murder of Jamea Jonae … Continue reading →

My home institution the University of Central Florida (UCF) has announced that John C. Hitt, our president from 1992 to 2018, has died at the age of 82. It was under President Hitt’s forward-looking leadership that UCF went from a … Continue reading →

Today (22 February 2023) is George Washington’s 292nd birthday! Two reasons I like to mark this occasion is Washington’s decision to resign his military commission after the rebels won the American Revolution as well as his fateful decision not to … Continue reading →

Note: This is the third in a series of blog posts in honor of Richard Posner My independent study of the works of Richard A. Posner began in December of 2000, when I visited a used bookstore called Brand Bookshop … Continue reading →

IP history: On this day (21 Feb.) in 1842, the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine is granted. (Charles Fredrick Wiesenthal, a German-born engineer working in England, was awarded the first British patent in 1755 for a mechanical device … Continue reading →

Happy Presidents Day Weekend! Thus far, I have reviewed the first five chapters of Thomas Bingham’s Rule of Law, and along the way I have identified some serious flaws in Judge Bingham’s book, such as the circularity of the equality … Continue reading →

Originally posted on prior probability:
As I see it, a good Bayesian should assign an equal probability to each of these outcomes and then begin updating these priors as new evidence becomes available, right?

More pictures of our puppy “Nugget”: