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Paul's pages: November 2013
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Thursday, November 28, 2013. AI, Star Wars and quantum computing. This essay was first published ca. 2000 and modified a few times thereafter. As proposed, the National Missile Defense has, at best, little bang for the buck. Every phase of interception, using collision as the kill mechanism, has serious drawbacks. If the intruder is past boost phase, a laser intercept might be triggered sometime after atmosphere re-entry. Multiple beams would hit decoys, which will likely be balloons, that will eithe...
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Monday, November 11, 2013. First published Thursday, July 12, 2007. There are various forms of the "prosecutor's paradox" or "the prosecutor's fallacy," in which probabilities are used to assign guilt to a defendant. But probability is a slippery subject. For a non-rigorous but useful example of likelihood of critical misstatement, please see the post Enrico Fermi and a 9/11 plausibility test. In that post we are testing plausibility. At Znewz1.blogspot.com. The prosecutor gave these probabilities:.
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Tales from dekrypt: October 2006
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An aperiodic discussion concerning privacy, encryption, intelligent design and various and sundry mathematical and scientific issues. The web log writer, Paul Conant, holds no science degrees. He has a background in journalism and modest mathematical training. Tuesday, October 24, 2006. Posted by Paulie @ 2:28 PM. Links to this post. Friday, October 20, 2006. Infinitely long statements (a proof). A grammatical string of symbols is one whereby certain substrings are barred as ungrammatical. But this d...
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Tales from dekrypt: March 2007
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An aperiodic discussion concerning privacy, encryption, intelligent design and various and sundry mathematical and scientific issues. The web log writer, Paul Conant, holds no science degrees. He has a background in journalism and modest mathematical training. Monday, March 19, 2007. The conjecture here is that g is affected by a difference in the shape of the earth's core and its sea-level surface. However, these wrong values don't tell the whole story about what is wrong. Now the value of g at latitude...
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Tales from dekrypt: November 2006
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An aperiodic discussion concerning privacy, encryption, intelligent design and various and sundry mathematical and scientific issues. The web log writer, Paul Conant, holds no science degrees. He has a background in journalism and modest mathematical training. Friday, November 10, 2006. As suggested in the post ET, phone home. Probability for 1 head (as long as we don't care which toss it occurs in) is about 3%, for 2 heads is about 10%, and for 3 heads is about 22%. As n increases, the probability of ex...
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Tales from dekrypt: April 2007
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An aperiodic discussion concerning privacy, encryption, intelligent design and various and sundry mathematical and scientific issues. The web log writer, Paul Conant, holds no science degrees. He has a background in journalism and modest mathematical training. Tuesday, April 17, 2007. The case of the missing energy. Just a note to amplify a previous post which takes a look at the energy deficit problem for the twin towers. Correction (April 26, 2007): A mass estimate has been revised to 7 x 10. The poten...
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Tales from dekrypt: February 2007
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An aperiodic discussion concerning privacy, encryption, intelligent design and various and sundry mathematical and scientific issues. The web log writer, Paul Conant, holds no science degrees. He has a background in journalism and modest mathematical training. Monday, February 12, 2007. No grand revelations in this post. I'm just setting the record straight as to how I understand the Michelson-Morley experiment. The magnitude for no ether flow. This difference would have been revealed by a difference...
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Tales from dekrypt: July 2007
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An aperiodic discussion concerning privacy, encryption, intelligent design and various and sundry mathematical and scientific issues. The web log writer, Paul Conant, holds no science degrees. He has a background in journalism and modest mathematical training. Thursday, July 12, 2007. There are various forms of the "prosecutor's paradox" or "the prosecutor's fallacy," in which probabilities are used to assign guilt to a defendant. But probability is a slippery subject. At Znewz1.blogspot.com.). The prose...
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Tales from dekrypt: January 2007
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An aperiodic discussion concerning privacy, encryption, intelligent design and various and sundry mathematical and scientific issues. The web log writer, Paul Conant, holds no science degrees. He has a background in journalism and modest mathematical training. Tuesday, January 16, 2007. Includes some editorial changes, but no physical or mathematical changes. Preface to Draft 2. This revised post includes data on elastic collisions and not only perfectly inelastic collisions. Two crucial issues confront ...
