The Washington Post, famous for its outside-of-the-box thinking on scientific matters, has published a list of the worst ideas of the last one hundred years (sorry for the hyperbolifics in the title).… more →
Science and Math Defeatedwrote 1 week ago: The Washington Post, famous for its outside-of-the-box thinking on scientific matters, has published … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: In a comment on my previous post arguing that probability is arbitrary, Stephen Bourque wrote Proba … more →
wrote 1 month ago: I have been reading a previous issue of New Scientist and came across an article by Angela Saini whi … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Blog Post by George Bergus, Department of Family Medicine, University of Iowa I am continually impre … more →
wrote 2 months ago: So a quick post this morning and then back to all the stuff I have to do including finishing my roug … more →
wrote 7 months ago: Visualizing Bayes’ theorem | Ramblings. A longer article can be found here. … more →
wrote 7 months ago: DN Claim: “Michael Aquino was a multi-millionaire who had extensive real estate holdings. I be … more →
wrote 8 months ago: Mark Reid has a great article up analyzing the Argument from Design using Bayes’ theorem. The … more →
wrote 9 months ago: As any Berkeley professor can tell you, animals rights activists are getting more violent by the nan … more →
wrote 10 months ago: Question from http://wiki.xkcd.com/irc/Puzzles Sue and Bob take turns rolling a 6-sided die. Once ei … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Here is the analysis using Bayes’ Theorem of the probability puzzle I posted below. In this po … more →
wrote 1 year ago: This is an essential assumption of Bayes’s Calculus. If you doubt that this is common, then ju … more →
wrote 1 year ago: THIS DAY IN GOD: Not all religiously-motivated terrorist attacks on U.S. soil are caused by Muslims … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Conditional probability: Bayes Theorem: for continuous distributions: Recall for a joint distribut … more →