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Suppose that you believe larger scale wars than current US military campaigns are looming in the next decade or two (this may be highly impr

Link to the Question I haven't gotten an answer on this yet and I set up a bounty; I figured I'd link it here too in case any stats/physic

I'm re-posting a small bit of writing from my blog that was inspired by reading some recent discussions about cryonics on LW. I'm by no mean

Andrew Gelman has a post up today discussing a particularly illustrative instance of narrative fallacy involving the recent plagiarism discu

I have read the sequences on reductionism and quantum physics some time ago now and I was hoping for some help finding the right places to g

Edit: it was unfortunately a prank. I definitely checked the date of the article (which is dated Apr. 2), before posting on it. Kind of mean

Andrew Gelman recently linked a new article entitled "Induction and Deduction in Bayesian Data Analysis." At his blog, he also described som

I am in one of those moods where I feel extremely burned out and apathetic. What I am noticing about my feelings right now is that there is

From a recent paper that is getting non-trivial attention... "Quantum states are the key mathematical objects in quantum theory. It is th

I am a graduate student in the U.S. nearing the completion of my master's degree in applied mathematics. I am looking for jobs at the master