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“Everything not saved will be lost”
Is this a tautology? Hat tip: IamtheWG (via imgur).
Posted in Logical Fallacies, Philosophy
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Mayo (1996): A Comment
Since summer, we’ve been carefully and slowly reading (off and on) Dr Deborah Mayo’s excellent tome “Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge.” It’s a tough read–we’re only up to page 192 of her book, less than half-way through, though … Continue reading
Posted in Bayesian Reasoning, Probability
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Map of Player Salary Stats
Current players (by State of birth) (via Playboy).
Posted in Maps, Sports
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Star Wars Simulcast
The release of the new Star Wars movie “The Force Awakens” is just a few days away. In the meantime, here’s your chance to watch all six previous Star Wars flicks at the same time! (via Michael McNulty)
Posted in Culture, Science Fiction
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Espejitos (little mirrors)
Glasswing Butterfly. https://t.co/icwQXPuwoU pic.twitter.com/0tOmEVGy1F — Cliff Pickover (@pickover) December 14, 2015
Posted in Deception
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Blog post #1001
Above is the notification we received from WordPress. For the record, here is our first blog post, a picture titled Summer in Amsterdam from 5 July 2013. Here is our most visited one, an image titled Chess piece survival rates from … Continue reading
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“Ban airplanes. Yes, all of them.”
The venerable New Republic recently published an anti-gun diatribe by Phoebe Maltz Bovy, a young writer living in Toronto. Her essay is provocatively titled “It’s time to ban guns. Yes, all of them.” Not satisfied with just banning guns, we … Continue reading
Posted in Law, Logical Fallacies
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Recent Reading (“Methuselah’s Children”)
We’ve just finished reading Robert Heinlein’s 1958 science fiction novel Methuselah’s Children. Why wasn’t this book made into a movie? Among other things, Heinlein explores the possibility of extended human lifespans as well as the possibility of intergalactic travel faster than … Continue reading
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“La trampa de Gödel” (Venezuela edition)
Not long ago we published a formal paper titled Gödel’s Loophole in which we identify and distinguish between Gödelian and non-Gödelian design defects in the U.S. Constitution, loopholes that could potentially lead to the creation of a constitutional dictatorship within the existing … Continue reading
Posted in Law, Logical Fallacies, Politics
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prior probability 