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Upcoming talk
If you happen to be in San Francisco, California this week, and if you’re a fan of this blog (two big “ifs”), yours truly will be attending the 19th Annual Faculty Conference of the Federalist Society, where we will be presenting our … Continue reading
Probabilistic Interpretation, Part 2
That is the title of our most recent work in progress; one of the research projects we were working on while we were on sabbatical. (Part 1 of the paper will be published in the University of LaVerne Law Review … Continue reading
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Meta-trolley problem
Via Chris Rodley: “A runaway trolley is about to create five trolley problems. Do you pull the lever and divert it, so it only creates one?”
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Top three list
Here’s a listing of our three most popular/most visited blog posts over the last three years: 1. Probabilistic business hours (2016) 2. Consumer surplus: “Print Wikipedia” art edition (2015) 3. Chess piece survival rates (2014)
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Is the tree of life more like a web?
The great Charles Darwin visualized a tree of life (pictured below) consisting of separate species springing from a distant ancestor, but what if many of these “separate species” still share significant amounts of the same genetic material? Check out, for … Continue reading
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Merry Christmas: a “Blade Runner” sequel is in the works
We interrupt our sporadic Internet sabbatical with the following update: Forget the overhyped (and totally overrated) Star Wars franchise, because we just discovered that Blade Runner is coming back to the big screen. The “original” Blade Runner is one of … Continue reading
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prior probability 