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Probability and statistics - Social Numbers, Probabilistic Models, Data Analysis

Britannica
A new field of moral statistics grew up to record and comprehend the problems of dirt, disease, crime, ignorance, and poverty.
1 month ago

The Coddling of the Professor’s Mind

Substack
Dear Coddling Movie community,. If you're a regular at this Substack, Dr. Randy Wayne will be familiar to you.
5 months ago

Computation Is All Around Us, and You Can See It if You Try

Quanta Magazine
Computer scientist Lance Fortnow writes that by embracing the computations that surround us, we can begin to understand and tame our seemingly random world.
7 months ago

How Soviet communist philosophy shaped postwar quantum theory

Aeon | a world of ideas
When quantum mechanics posed a threat to the Marxist doctrine of materialism, communist physicists sought to reconcile the two.
8 months ago

Thomas Bayes | Bayesian Statistics, Probability Theory, Logic

Britannica
English Nonconformist theologian and mathematician who was the first to use probability inductively and who established a mathematical basis for probability...
3 weeks ago

Our free will may seem obvious, but philosophers and scientists challenge it

Catholic Herald
It's my decision – or is it? This month, I've decided to write about free will. I could have chosen to write about other topics, and if you...
18 months ago

Philosophy and Data Science —Thinking deeply about data

Towards Data Science
This is the first installment of a multi-part series that discuss various philosophical viewpoints and their implications on data and data science.
14 months ago

Does quantum theory imply the entire Universe is preordained?

Nature
The popular idea that quantum physics implies everything is random and nothing is certain might be as far from the truth as it could possibly be.
13 months ago

Freud Among the Great Books: Beyond a Monolithic “Freudian Theory”

The Imaginative Conservative
There is a popular image of Sigmund Freud that is much too easily dismissive of his genius and of his importance, and the remedy for this is...
127 months ago

Gambler's Fallacy: Overview and Examples

Investopedia
The gambler's fallacy, also known as the Monte Carlo fallacy, occurs when an individual erroneously believes that a certain random event is less likely or...
94 months ago