Books
Books that I have written.
Media Appearances
Podcasts and Videos in which I have appeared or which I have created.
pyndamics3
Dynamical systems simulation in Python. Includes both continuous and stochastic simulation.
Stats for Everyone
An introductory stats book from a Bayesian perspective, including Python software.
I am a Scientist, Skeptic, and Professor at Bryant University. My goal is to make technical subject matters widely accessible and to use my analytical and computational skills to assist anyone with their science-related problems.
Blog
Why Python is the language everyone should learn
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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Evolution and Morality We can do better
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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Objective Morality Defined What do I mean anyway?
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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Objective Morality A Matter of Complexity
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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Statistical Inference for Everyone (sie)
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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Something from Nothing
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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What is AI? A biologists misguided assessment
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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Naturalism of the Gaps? Not so much
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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Three Years of Weather Surface Maps Of The United States
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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Will the Sun Rise Tomorrow? Hume, Laplace, and Bayes
On a recent Unbelievable podcast there is a discussion between Calum Miller and James Croft on the topic "is our universe more likely on atheism or theism?", where Calum introduces …
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Theism vs Atheism An Argument from Probability
On a recent Unbelievable podcast there is a discussion between Calum Miller and James Croft on the topic "is our universe more likely on atheism or theism?", where Calum introduces …
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What's the Harm in Alternative Medicine? An Explicit Death Toll
When challenging the bogus medical claims of herbalists, chiropractors, and homeopaths one is often countered with the question "what's the harm?" How could harm come from a treatment that, even …
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What evidence would it take? Changing ones mind in science and religion
I heard over the past couple of days the question being asked "what evidence would convince you that there is a God?", and the reverse (to a believer) "what evidence …
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What Sane Climate Discussion Looks Like
One of the standard climate blogs I read is Judith Curry's blog Climate Etc... I find that the topics she brings up, and the points she adds to it, are …
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What is Science?
Today I gave a presentation on the general topic of "What is Science?" After some brief remarks about what science isn't and some of the factors (such as attitude) which …
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Is Faith the Same as Trust or Baseless Belief? An Empirical Question
I was listening to the Unbelievable podcast debate between Tim McGrew and Peter Boghossian on the definition of faith, and whether it is a valid way of knowing. I have …
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Faith, Trust, and Evidence A Question of Definition
I was listening to the Unbelievable podcast debate between Tim McGrew and Peter Boghossian on the definition of faith and whether or not faith is a valid way of knowing …
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Bayesian vs Frequentist Perspectives An Excellent Explanation
Jake VanderPlas has what I believe is the clearest, and most thorough, take-down of the frequentist approach to statistical inference. It's in four parts, so far. The third part, in …
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Statistical Heresies - The Movie Coming to a YouTube Channel Near You
The moment we've been all waiting for, Statistical Heresies the movie is out! You can watch it in a couple of places:
- YouTube: You can hear me, but you might …
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Turing Test Passed Now, Perhaps, Our Robotic Overlords Are Coming
There has been an announcement that the Turing Test has finally been passed! So a computer has fooled humans into thinking that the computer is a human, as proposed in …
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It's Unreasonable to Believe Some True Things A Comment about Presupossitionalism
In the frustrating debate between Matt Dillahunty and Sye Ten Bruggencate, linked below, an "argument" is put forward that belief in God is reasonable. If you are unfamiliar with presuppositional …
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