An Interesting Statistical Tidbit
You’re probably more likely to die from stressing over SARS than from SARS, even if you go licking every coughing person in the face to get all their delicious germs. […]
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- Time person of the year 2006, Nobel Peace Prize winner 2012.
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Podcasts I Like
According to folklore, video killed the radio star. Then Youtube killed video. I’m not sure how podcasts fit into this, but here we are. During my one-year stint with biking 3-4 hours a day, I started listening to a ton of stuff: music, audio books and podcasts. It is not my impression that podcasts ever really […]
Youtube Channels I Like
Here’s something a bit different: a bunch of Youtube channels I like. I don’t really watch TV; haven’t really in 15 years. The format bores me and tends to put me to sleep. Lately, Youtube has improved to the point where there’s genuinely good channels that consistently put out content worth watching. Here’s a bunch […]
There
I was planning to remodel my attic, and now I’m mostly done. This was the plan for the alcohol corner: And reality. It kind-of looks the sam, except I can’t fly and am not infinitely skinny like in the 3D program. On the plus side, reality has a lot more booze. Computer corner: Reality: Reality […]
Remodeling the Attic
I’ve reached the equilibrium where my memory of the annoyance of remodeling the two first floors is balanced with the annoyance of the mess in my attic: There’s nothing to do about the ugly carpet (there’s nothing underneath and I’m not going to put anything there). I’m also not going to bother with painting the […]
Tertium Datur
In logic, there’s a law called tertium non datur. The English name of the law is “the law of the excluded middle” The law states that any statement is either true or false.
If we combine this with the logical fallacy false dichotomy, and the notion of substitution, many arguments actually rely on tertium non datur. […]