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I hate to be a naysayer here (because I actually like the idea of this calculator) but I use R for virtually every mathematical and statistical problem I encounter. It's always ope…

On a number of occasions I have had prospective employers ask what my final grade was for specific classes. I have never been asked about my GPA specifically, but my grades at the …

>People do the calculus to decide if risk is greater than reward all the time. Technically you're right but what you seem to be missing is that people (in general) suck at risk ass…

As a statistician, that has not been my experience.

I agree with your point but I suspect the problem with statements like the one you identified is that they claim too much. In other words, if I say "The American people want X", th…

I urge you to read Spinoza for yourself if you are under the impression that his philosophy is like Ayn Rand's. I assure you, they are worlds apart.

I never turn location services on and I run on mobile data (rather than WiFi) almost every moment of the day. My location was correctly determined within the specified range. sigh …

>I have a pet theory that more visual thinking is something that has come in from our Neanderthal ancestors. That is an interesting proposal. One thing I like about it is its easy …

More accidents happen at home for the same reason more car accidents happen close to home...that's where the people are often spending time.

Would you say that you haven't seen any proof that there are "inevitable" effects of (attempts at) communism?

An issue generated by the prospect of teachers carrying firearms is the problem of weapon retention. Anyone trained with weaponry should understand that, when you are carrying, par…

I have two laptops for work, one of which is a System76 and both are currently running POP! OS (made by System76). I have had a few hiccups with the OS but nothing major. I would s…

Douglas Walton has been my go-to on these topics for years. For those interested in a more professional presentation of some of the concepts used in this blog post, try this: http:…

For the record, our ability to link individual weather events to climate change is not zero. In the last 3 years or so we have become pretty good at it. https://www.nap.edu/catalog…

Correction: There is no NECESSARY evolutionary pressure for the triplets to be the same.

Even Zeno knew the arrow would arrive at the other end of the room. The real question was what was creating the (apparent) paradox. A little philosophy will get you in trouble. Jus…

>The slippery slope fallacy isn't really a fallacy. I'm going to be just a little pedantic here and point out that the Slippery Slope fallacy is indeed always a fallacy, it's just …

I worked on a similar system when I was finishing my degree. I suspect that, in the next 5-10 years, there will be several versions of this of various sizes ready for deployment.

>For starters, he says, researchers should conduct "ablation studies" like those done with the translation algorithm: deleting parts of an algorithm one at a time to see the functi…

I read Magee's book Confessions of a Philosopher some years ago and it was agonizing. Magee's personal bitterness was so pungent and so awkwardly colored his thoughts on philosophi…

I'm interested in the concept but do you have a suggestion for a book published more recently? "Do Elections Matter?" was published almost 30 years ago.

Gettier cases long ago convinced me that it is useless to talk about 'truth' apart from 'justification'. Obviously, none of us can ascertain truth directly. The only way we can cla…