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• MUST-READ: New research paper argues against chance-of-the-gaps

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 554
  Story from Evolution News . (H/T ECM) The peer-reviewed paper is here: David L. Abel, “ The Universal Plausibility Metric (UPM) & Principle (UPP) ,” Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling , Vol. 6:27 (Dec. 3, 2009). Here’s the thesis: The question for scientific methodology should not be, “Is ...
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• You Dont Know Anything About Tiger Woods, So Shut Up!

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
    Disclaimer: I dont know anything at all about Tiger or Elin Woods but am going to write about them anyway.] Everything thats been written about Tiger Woods is wrong; that is, every inference and judgment about the meaning of his actions (the paltry slivers of it that we think we know) has nothing to do with ...
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• The trouble with MrBayes

  
  Myrmecos Blog — Authority: 424
  Sorry for an uncharacteristically technical post.  But, I’ve produced an excellent example of a problem that’s been plaguing the widely-used phylogenetics program MrBayes and thought it might be of interest to the handful of systematists who read this blog. I’ve been running analyses on the Azteca y’all ...
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• Ray Solomonoff is No More

  
  Onionesque Reality — Authority: 91
  For the past couple of years, I have had a couple of questions about machine learning research that I have wanted to ask some experts, but never got the chance to do so. I did not even know if my questions made sense at all. I would probably write about them on a blog post soon enough. It is however ironical that I ...
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• The role of parsing in Mormonism

  
  Irresistible (Dis)Grace — Authority: 418
  If you’ve read through the Mormon Bloggernacle long enough, then you’ve probably come across Ray (aka Papa D of Things of My Soul .) Ray is noteworthy for a great many things (for one, I have never seen Ray lose his cool. I have seen him express strong sentiments against Calvinism at rare times, but he seems to ...
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• Kiwi church’s risque Mary, Joseph in bed billboard causes outrage

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Melbourne, Dec 17 (ANI): A Christmas billboard depicting Jesus’ mother Mary looking dejected after unsatisfying sex with Joseph has made Kiwi Catholics unhappy.The huge ad put up in downtown Auckland showed the couple in bed with unhappy expressions and a slogan stating: “Poor Joseph. God was a hard act to ...
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• Making F# type inference friendly for C#

  
  jaredpar's WebLog — Authority: 453
  One of my current hobby projects, VsVim , requires me to do a lot of interopting between F# and C#.  The core Vim engine is a pure F# solution based on Visual Studio’s new editor.  It additionally has a small hosting layer and a large test bed both written in C#.  When interopting with the exposed core Vim ...
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• Testosterone Link to Aggression Questioned

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 580
  Provocative new research rebukes the traditional belief that testosterone causes aggressive, egocentric, and risky behavior. Emerging studies at the Universities of Zurich and Royal Holloway London involving more than 120 experimental subjects has shown that the sexual hormone can encourage fair behaviors if this ...
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• MUST-READ: Doug Axe defends intelligent design at science conference in Germany

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 554
  Doug Axe got his Ph.D from Cambridge University, and published some of his findings in the peer-reviewed Journal of Molecular Biology. He was trying to see whether it is easy or hard to shuffle amino acids randomly in order to make functional proteins. Those JMB publications show that the number of functional amino ...
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• The Decade of Fragility?

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  Through their Magazine the BBC is trying to compile a summing up of the first decade of the 21st century by polling their readers to “ tell the story of the last 10 years, based on five themes .” Personally, I tend to prefer the single unifying theme; but I realize that this might be a rather daunting task ...
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• Do humans influence temperature records?

  
  Uncommon Descent — Authority: 609
  Can the methods of Intelligent Design be brought to bear to detect anthropogenic influence in temperature records? Core to the climate debate is the danger of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming . We hear of “tipping points” promising coast lands drowning in glacial melt. Defining “very likely” as > ...
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• Forex Typhoon - New FX Automated Robot With Massive *real* Proof

  
  Currency Forex Trading Blog — Authority: 155
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• Science and theism

  
  Alexander Pruss's Blog — Authority: 510
  Suppose I am a theistic scientist, and I come up with a simple and elegant theory that fits the data. You ask me: But what reason do you have to believe that the theory is true? I am likely to answer: There is a good God who created a world exemplifying genuine values like simplicity and beauty. ...
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• The Limits of Bayesian Reasoning

  
  ThinkMarkets — Authority: 550
  by Gene Callahan In a seminar I’ve been attending at NYU this semester, David Chalmers contended that “resetting priors” is irrational in a Bayesian framework . (If you’re not familiar with Bayesian inference, the Wikipedia article just linked to does a good job of introducing the topic, so I will refer ...
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• Here’s a promising article: “Fed moves to drain some money out of economy” (posted on yahoo at 4:01 pm today)

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Fed-moves-to-drain-some-money-apf-666128844.html?x=0 “The Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Monday that investors and others shouldn’t conclude anything about when the central bank will reverse course and start boosting interest rates and removing other supports to fend off ...
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• How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Counterfactuals – Daniel Westreich

  
  Ignite Seattle! — Authority: 112
  When looking at data regarding Web site user behavior or in Daniel Westreich’s case, epidemiology, we have to be remember that correlation does not imply causation . That is, just because two events were observed close together in time, it is false to assume that one caused the other. Causal inference is hard. ...
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• Implicit Phasing for R6RS Libraries

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 161
  Abdulaziz Ghuloum and R. Kent Dybvig, Implicit Phasing for R6RS Libraries , Proc. ICFP 2007. The forthcoming Revised Report on Scheme differs from previous reports in that the language it describes is structured as a set of libraries. It also provides a syntax for defining new portable libraries. The same library ...
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• Appellate Court Decision Provides Another Lesson About Preserving Data

  
  Connecticut Employment Law Blog — Authority: 510
  As Ive noted before, the appellate courts in Connecticut release their decisions in advance of an "official" publication date for various reasons. Ive now read over the Appellate Courts upcoming decision in Paylan v. St. Marys Hospital Corp . a few times  trying to discern the big lesson for employers to take from ...
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