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.
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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The moment we've been all waiting for, Statistical Heresies the movie is out! You can watch it in a couple of places:
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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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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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I felt compelled to write this post, for some reason.
Reading an interesting article about free will has gotten me thinking about it again, despite the fact that doing so …
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As part of the Unbelievable Project, I am taking notes and "arm-chair" responding to each of the Unbelievable podcast episodes satisfying a set of simple rules.
See here for a …
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So I was sitting in the cafeteria the other day, and there was a clock which showed the wrong time and the second hand was being weird. I noted that …
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I just added an example of simple model construction to my textbook, Statistical Inference for Everyone. It's a process I don't think I've ever seen in an intro stats book …
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I'm giving a talk today, highlighting some of the current Bayesian/frequentist relationships as they relate to introductory statistics education. You can download the pdf here.
We live in a …
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I just finished listening to this excellent debate. I thought the proponents of dualism were credulous, and ignored the specific requests by the opponents to rule out alternatives. I'll get …
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On a "science is darn cool" note, the sibling of the Sun has been found. It's a pretty straightforward idea, although technically challenging. Stars that are "born" from the same …
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I saw this list of spurious correlations, including "US spending on science, space, and technology" correlates with "Suicides by hanging, strangulation and suffocation", "Number people who drowned by falling into …
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The graphic below has circulated the internet for a while, and I think it worthy of comment. The intent of the graphic is to point out how silly those so-called …
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Haven't had a post in too long, and I hope to get back into things.
I was reading an article about dualism where they point out 6 reasons that naturalism …
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As part of the Unbelievable Project, I am taking notes and "arm-chair" responding to each of the Unbelievable podcast episodes satisfying a set of simple rules.
See here for a …
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So I was recently reminded of an old interview of Alister McGrath by Richard Dawkins. When I first listened to this, quite some time ago, I recall feeling that McGrath …
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From time to time we see a headline like The end of the world IS nigh: Huge asteroid 'will hit earth in 2032' claim astronomers or a more modest one …
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In a recent article bemoaning the pseudoscientific attitudes of the public, I was struck by the following result: When given the question...
Astrology is
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In a comment on my Wordpress site (a site I am replacing with this one) on a post about "Creationist Math", the commenter says:
I believe we all choose to …
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Seems as if everyone is talking about the recent Ken Ham vs Bill Nye debate on evolution and creation, so I figured I'd put in my two cents.
I couldn't …
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In my introduction to probability in class this week, I was asked if proof and evidence really meant the same thing. They don't. To summarize,
Proof does not exist in …
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