First clause of the morning's campus email: 'UC Berkeley has long experience with nonviolent political protest...'

Meehl’s Philosophical Psychology, Lecture 2 (pt 2): Don’t let facts get in the way of a good theory. argmin.net/p/inconvenient…

Meehl’s Philosophical Psychology, Lecture 2 (pt 1): The romantic allure of Popperian falsification. argmin.net/p/popperian-fa…

Meehl’s Philosophical Psychology, Lecture 1: Metatheory, metalanguage, and metaphilosophy. argmin.net/p/everything-i…

I'm going to try blogging about someone else's class: Paul Meehl's final lectures on philosophical psychology. argmin.net/p/blogging-phi…

Who is submitting more than one first-author paper to a single conference?

What happens when you push the scientific fact generation pipeline to absurdity? TimDarcet's analysis of the AI paper mill warrants reflection.

The future of music is entangled with the future of spreadsheets. This isn't a bad thing. argmin.net/p/business-num…

Most people don't appreciate the breadth of music you can create with just a laptop. argmin.net/p/unreal-is-he…

In lieu of picking more fights on Twitter, I wrote a longer thing about AI music, cover songs, and the genius of Miley Cyrus. argmin.net/p/the-real-imi…

There are billions of different kinds of probability, but they all agree on the odds the Celtics will win the chip. argmin.net/p/heaven-or-la…

Kolmogorov’s Axioms homogenize the unknown. argmin.net/p/the-grand-un…

I wrote about measurement, how we don’t understand it, and how it is one of our primary sources of uncertainty and ignorance. argmin.net/p/back-action

A proposed solution.

Scholarship on the Academic Credit Assignment Problem has lost the plot.

An April Fools Day post? Randomness as a tool of deception. argmin.net/p/your-cunning…

Is a statistician smarter than a fifth grader argmin.net/p/is-a-statist…