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Homepage - iRi Permalink Jul 20, 2008,BloviationI didn't notice this reddit link go by last month, since I don't check my referrers as often as I used to (heh), linking to my post about teaching things other than trig.Read the rest (289 words) Permalink Jul 19, 2008Following up on my "failed predictions" point, I point at the now widely-distributed article about the low-fat vs. low-carb diets.The standard dietary orthodoxy predicts that the results of this study would be exactly the opposite of what happened. The predictions are wrong. Therefore, the standard model is wrong. I don't need to be a nutritionist to make this determination.Read the rest (196 words) Permalink Jul 18, 2008,PoliticsOver the past couple of years, I've been turning into a skeptic on the global warming theory, in particular the idea that mankind's actions have effectively doomed us to an uncomfortably hot planet (since the putatively required solutions are all completely unimplementable).I will grant that my politics would seem to incline me to such skepticism, but I try to decide based on the science, not the politics. If the world truly is heading for disaster, I want to know.It is very hard to judge a science that you have no experience in, but there is one metric that you can correctly use as an educated outsider to determine whether a scientist is on the right track or the wrong track: the accuracy of predictions. If a prediction is correctly made, it favors a theory, proportionally to the difficulty of the prediction. If the prediction is wrong, it is very solid evidence that the theory or model is wrong. This judgment can be often be made by anybody, especially when it's a question of something simple like temperature.Read the rest... "Fallout From the Fall of CAPTCHAs" Permalink Jul 15, 2008,BloviationSlashdot has an unusually interesting discussion on the rise and fall of CAPTCHAs, which is why I give that link precedence over the original story.I mention this because I keep waiting for someone to discuss the root problem, and it's so rarely done that I guess I'm just going to have to do it myself. The root problem of spam comes from the following simple tension:We want to be able to contact or be contacted by anybody.We don't want to be contacted by just anybody.Without understanding this fundamental dynamic, the whole "spam" situation won't make any sense.Read the rest... Permalink Jun 25, 2008,PoliticsOne of the things I sometimes fiddle with in the back of my head is how to fix school curricula to better serve students and society. One of the stronger ideas I have is that economics (and ideally, game theory) should be taught, replacing a lot of really dumb mathematical holdovers like trigonometric identities for a semester or two.And over the last few weeks, I've been really wishing that we'd been teaching economics for the past fifty years instead of other silly things, because the blinding stupidity on exhibit in the recent oil debates is really starting to get to me.Read the rest... Past Posts ->  Site Links About the Author About iRi iRi Blog Books BlogBook: Communication Ethics RSS All Posts  All Comments Blogroll dangerousmeta Chizumatic Twenty Sided Classical Values Hack the Planet programming on reddit _uacct = "UA-532932-1";urchinTracker(); |
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