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Manuel "Moe" G.: How can we define "Useful", when it comes to our models of reality?
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Monday, August 30, 2010. How can we define "Useful", when it comes to our models of reality? Wikimedia Commons: "N-Gauge Cassiopeia E26 and EF81 from Kato". A comment to "Useful models, model checking, and external validation: a mini-discussion". Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science. Gelman wrote (with Cosma Shalizi. A very fine philosophical justification for real-world, effective Bayesian techniques, which differs greatly from the usual philosophy associated with Bayesians. Just k...
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Although I shall try my best to ensure that I do not make any statement that is obviously false, in the unlikely event that an erratum on my part leads you to inadvertently wreak havoc on half the human race, I shall vehemently. Refuse to have anything to do with it. Unless that hapless half happens to include me, of course. Make yourself at home. You have been forewarned. Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on Google (Opens in new window). Click to email (Opens in new window).
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Here you’ll find some of my older writings, including undergraduate term papers and angsty teenage poetry, that I’m not too uncomfortable putting on a public server. They are not necessarily representative of my current views or disposition. Charge Quantisation and Magnetic Monopoles. Problems in General Relativity. Intercepts of Lattice Planes. Scattering Amplitudes and the Amplituhedron. The Corpse in the Living Room. Smoke on the Unlit End. Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Send to Email Address.
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Monthly Archives: July 2015. Any attempt to discern a fundamental description of the world we inhabit from its phenomenology is greatly complicated by the fact that we indeed inhabit it. Of course, depending on what “world” stands in for, this claim runs the gamut from perfectly innocuous facts such as the existence of other planets to approximately a million times more contentious proposals such as the Multiverse, which incidentally is contentious for about the same reason. I will use the same notation ...
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Monthly Archives: June 2015. As long as the nights teeter into dawn,. And embers into dazzling cities,. The poets will walk into the flaming valley. And burn for a thousand years,. Wafting their pregnant worlds across the summer stillness. And as long as the days dissolve into dusk,. And cities into sputtering embers,. They will behead their echo by the ocean. And let it bleed for a thousand years. So that the ghost may tingle against the frigid face of God. In all these years of burning and bleeding,.
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Either/or « Reaping Detritus
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As long as the nights teeter into dawn,. And embers into dazzling cities,. The poets will walk into the flaming valley. And burn for a thousand years,. Wafting their pregnant worlds across the summer stillness. And as long as the days dissolve into dusk,. And cities into sputtering embers,. They will behead their echo by the ocean. And let it bleed for a thousand years. So that the ghost may tingle against the frigid face of God. In all these years of burning and bleeding,. With a name, I will set you fr...
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