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Happy Birthday Google Scholar
How great is Google Scholar? Special thanks to Anurag Acharya for his pivotal role in creating the specialized Google Scholar search engine. His creation is ten years old today. (By the way, Gmail also turned ten years old in April of this … Continue reading
Greater Mexico (circa 1851)
Hat tip to marianovsky for the sharing this old map with us.
Antipodes
Ana Swanson asks, “Do you know what continent or ocean is directly under your feet?” Thanks to her for sharing this map of the antipodes of the Earth.
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Kanyé West and the Law of Bailments
A bailment is a legal relationship that arises when a person (the bailor) gives personal property to someone else (the bailee) for safekeeping. So, can a bailee use a disclaimer to eliminate or limit his or her legal responsibility to the bailor … Continue reading
Gödel’s loophole (Twitter edition)
Kurt Gödel found a bug in the Constitution that would allow a rise of fascism. It almost cost him his citizenship: http://t.co/D09fQiSAH8— Parker Higgins (@xor) November 01, 2014 What happens when the world’s greatest logician since Aristotle decides to study the … Continue reading
North American Holocaust
The territorial expansion of the United States (“Manifest Destiny”) came mostly at the expense of Native Americans (as well as Mexico). Think about that next time you think about “immigration reform” or the global “war on terror.” (Click on the map … Continue reading
Was Holmes a Bayesian?
Not that Holmes. This one. In our previous blog post (11/14/14), we promised to explain why our defense of Bayesian methods is relevant to law. After all, how is probability theory generally or any of the foregoing specifically — i.e. Hájek’s analysis … Continue reading
A critique of Hájek’s critique of “radical subjectivism”
Alan Hájek delivers a devastating blow against frequentism and other theories of probability in his influential 2007 paper “The reference class problem is your problem too.” In brief, when a hypothesis H or proposition P can be classified in various … Continue reading
Posted in Bayesian Reasoning, Probability
Tagged Alan Hajek, Reference Class Problem, Theory
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Comet landing
.@ESA_Rosetta See for yourself! ROLIS imaged #67P when we were just 3km away! Glad I can share. #CometLanding http://t.co/b6mcid2fsn— Philae Lander (@Philae2014) November 12, 2014 The European Space Agency has soft-landed its Philae spacecraft on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The signal from … Continue reading
Why vote?
Pay especially close attention to Congressional District #12. (Click on the map above for a larger version.) In addition, check out this damning map of “Gerrymander index scores” across the U.S. (Hat tip to rhiever for the pointer.) Why do people still vote when … Continue reading
Posted in Cheating, Deception, Law, Maps, Questions Rarely Asked
Tagged Gerrymandering, voting districts
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prior probability 