DI Gets It Wrong Yet Again: Definitions v. Behavior, Hallucinating Text, and Impersonating an ESL Student
[Sometimes life slides by for a while. The following text has been languishing in ‘drafts’. I apparently wrote a good
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Michigan: A Christmas Walk
Diane and I have been advised to increase our exercise. We decided to start with half-hour walks daily, something we
Read moreNegligent Public Officials
An MSN article on Trump’s former White House chief of staff, John Kelly, reported that Kelly expressed regret over having
Read moreUgly Theories Killed by Inconvenient Facts
I was looking for some info on income inequality, and ran into this article on Vox about empirically disproven economic
Read moreMyth Information: Is Human Hearing That Mysterious?
This is a post about human hearing, technology, science writing, and internet services. Have you ever wondered how persistent myths
Read moreAnother Child Sex Criminal (#4 so far) in the Trump Camp
I haven’t been combing news reports with any great efficiency, but every once in a while a news item just
Read moreAnalysis of the Electoral College: A Performance-Driven Assessment
The Electoral College has not done the job it was intended to do, and was changed in the time since
Read moreWatching Like A Hawk
It’s Michigan in December, and our sub-tropical Harris’ hawk, Rusty, can’t spend all her time in the outdoor mews. We
Read moreGood Post by David Frum? I Don’t Think So
David Frum, former speechwriter for George W. Bush, has an opinion piece in the Atlantic about how the various high-profile
Read moreMichigan Citizens for Science Has a New Domain
Things have been quiet on the evolution/creation front in Michigan. So quiet that the domain for Michigan Citizens for Science
Read moreThe Washington Post on Paying for Health Care
There’s a Washington Post editorial board op-ed on Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare for all” proposal. I’m going to work on just
Read moreNet Neutrality: FCC FCC’s Itself
Last year, John Oliver had an an exceptional episode of “Last Week Tonight” devoted to the net neutrality issue. One
Read moreThe New Abnormal: With Friends Like Us…
Scott Gilmore at McLeans has an article on Canada making an effective response to the new trade tariffs decreed by
Read morePhoto Gear: Flashpoint R2
I got some Christmas and birthday gifts in cash, and an admonishment from Marguerite that she wanted it to go
Read moreA Modest Proposal on Online Stores and Taxes
If sales made online must be taxed (and I don’t see that as a horrible thing), we immediately run into
Read moreThe New Abnormal: On the Outs with the Trumps
An MSN news article relates the curious case of Ms. Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, friend (or perhaps former friend) of First
Read moreMoving Window Averages and Ocean Acidification
There’s an interesting study on carbon dioxide effects on ecosystems. I’m trying to lay my hands on the full paper,
Read moreAnother Child Sex Criminal in the Trump Camp
It isn’t just campaign workers anymore. The “Trump.Dating” matching website (I am not making this up) previously featured a photo
Read moreHardware: The Phone Has a Problem
It took me a while to figure out that my LG G5 phone was changing shape. The unevenness in color
Read moreThe New Abnormal: School Shootings and Fire Alarms
Here’s what we have come to now. We need to have a cost-benefit analysis with Bayesian statistics to determine whether
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