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- Models as filthy water (6 comments)
- Scott Alexander Hm. Our main difference might be a linguistic difference of exactly what a process has to do to be "Bayesian" versus "Bayes-optimal". Especially since I'm... – 2013-06-13 03:08
- Gilbert On the article you linked, I think the headline seems to claim more than the body. I agree the brain uses density functions to model... – 2013-06-09 19:08
- komponisto so much of language has to be learned as a young child and learning is a basically Bayesian process. Noam Chomsky famously argued that language... – 2013-06-03 09:51
- Confusion and the Morning After Pill (17 comments)
- Gilbert Looking at the second document you linked to, it doesn't actually say there is no such secondary effect. I'm slowly sifting through the data right... – 2013-06-09 19:06
- Gilbert Given that this particular restriction never caught actual spam I've just changed the limit to something larger, but yes per WordPress defaults anything with more... – 2013-06-02 23:25
- Andrew G. I posted a reply with two links - did I screw it up, or are you moderating? – 2013-06-02 22:22
- Quantum sophistry (4 comments)
- Gilbert To be honest I'm near the edges of my own expertize here, so take my words with a a few grains of salt. My understanding... – 2013-05-24 11:56
- Ronak First point, fair enough; just would like to correct you that MWI does not actually postulate many worlds. The statement is about decoherence (or the... – 2013-05-23 21:11
- Gilbert Well yes, human reasoning is highly fallible. I don't know of anyone actually denying that and I certainly don't. Since I didn't give relevancy reasons... – 2013-05-23 18:44
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Category Archives: Politics
Confusion and the Morning After Pill
About two months ago the German bishops made the news with a statement on the Morning After Pill and rape. I was dissatisfied with basically all sides' knee-jerk reactions but also too busy to explain lots of details. So here's … Continue reading
It's official
The circumcision act is in yesterday's Bundesgesetzblatt (the federal official journal), which means it's now in force and circumcision is again unambiguously legal in Germany. I guess there will be some unsuccessful court challenges, but basically it's over. Here's an … Continue reading
Glooooooooooooooria in excelsis deeo!
So I kind of expected the committee to take its time, relegated the question to the back of my mind, forgot to follow the parliamentary calendar - and dropped the ball on reporting the main event. The Bundestag passed the … Continue reading
The circumcision bill
Most of you are probably bored of my reports on Germany dealing with that idiotic court decision on circumcision a few months ago. But I'm not relenting, so here's the newest update: Today the federal cabinet resolved on the bill … Continue reading
Returning to civilization
You may remember that in June a German court went berserk and found circumcision a crime. About two weeks later, I told you about government plans to clarify its legality statute. Now the ministry of justice is polling the states … Continue reading
Circumcision update
After the circumcision judgment I mentioned about two weeks ago, the federal government has now announced it is committed to keep religious circumcision possible and restore the security of law rapidly and is presently investigating ways to to that including … Continue reading
On that circumcision decision
You probably heard the news of a German court declaring circumcision illegal. As a German religion blogger blogging in English I probably should comment on that. So first I'll explain what happened and then I'll offer some commentary. The abstract … Continue reading
Constitution blogging day wrapup
This ends my day of blogging on the German constitution. Technically, the day ended two hours ago, but I didn't finish in time. I didn't cover everything worth covering. For example, a lot could be said about proportional representation, international … Continue reading
Delegation and Europe
Germany is traditionally big on European integration. And indeed European integration has gone much further than anyone would have expected, say, 30 years ago. In fact it has gone much further than most Europeans realize. Right now I won't explain … Continue reading
No direct democracy
One standard criticism of the Basic Law is that it doesn't allow the people to ever vote on federal laws directly. This is a point I fully agree with. As I said in my last post, a simple majority at … Continue reading