Books
Books that I have written.
Books that I have written.
Podcasts and Videos in which I have appeared or which I have created.
Dynamical systems simulation in Python. Includes both continuous and stochastic simulation.
An introductory stats book from a Bayesian perspective, including Python software.
In a Salon article entitled "New Atheism’s fatal arrogance: The glaring intellectual laziness of Bill Maher & Richard Dawkins", Sean Illing outlines what he seems to think are knock-down arguments …
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I continue with my critique of the article Why I am not a Bayesian by Greg Mayer, where complains about the Bayesian approach to inference, and then espouses Maximum Likelihood …
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I was reading the article Why I am not a Bayesian where Greg Mayer complains about the Bayesian approach to inference, and espouses Maximum Likelihood methods. There is much to …
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There's a very nice paper, Bayesian estimation supersedes the t test. John K. Kruschke, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2013, v.142(2), pp.573-603. The methods described provide at …
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E. T. Jaynes wrote extensively about Bayesian inference, and one of his strategies was to use a "Galileo's telescope for statistics", such as outlined in his paper on Confidence Intervals …
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I recall a comment in E. T. Jaynes' book about Laplace, where he realized that most of the arguments against the claims of Laplace were arguments against things Laplace never …
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In an interesting paper entitled "Can Science Test Supernatural Worldviews", Yonatan Fishman proposes an unusual answer of "yes". I've spoken to this issue here and again here, where I refer …
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So, it's all over the news, the Patriots cheated with deflating the football by 1-2 psi, and are lying about not knowing anything about it. There are even claims that …
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I was a judge for a local science fair this past week, and found a number of projects lacking. After thinking about it for a while, I realized that one …
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A friend and colleague of mine said to me recently that she was nervous that she might become "biased against any new health invention/method/etc... because virtually all of …
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Reading this review of a PloS One comparison between MS Word and LaTeX, I was struck by how much it resonates. There are many things that I do in both …
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I recently saw a claim that this past December 21 was the longest solstice night ever...in the history of the planet! When I first heard this, and when I …
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I have been a fan of the Python programming language for many years. It was encouraging to me lately that there are two articles about Python, reiterating many of my …
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In an ongoing discussion about morality, I said
It is perfectly plausible to me that an evolutionary framework explains much of the process of getting our current moral intuitions, such …
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I was asked the following question about my claim that objective moral values exist:
When you say that you firmly believe in objective morality, do you mean objective relative to …
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In a recent Dogma Debate Episode, we have a debate between the position of objective morality as espoused by Matt Dillahunty and subjective morality as espoused by John Figdor. I …
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This is a new approach to an introductory statistical inference textbook, motivated by probability theory as logic. It is targeted to the typical Statistics 101 college student, and covers the …
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In a talk about something from nothing, Lawrence Krauss describes how physics addresses the concept of "nothing". He has been criticized here and again here, primarily for redefining "nothing" in …
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In his blog post, Chatbots are boring. They aren't AI., PZ Myers the professor of biology at the University of Minnesota Morris has this to say about chatbots and AI …
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I heard a term yesterday that I hadn't every heard before, while listening to a very interesting interview/debate with Mike Licona on the Resurrection. The term is "naturalism of …
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I just posted an 8-minute movie I made showing weather maps for 3 years from July 2011 to September 2014. These surface maps are archived at the Unisys Weather Image …
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