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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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Oversimplification by Catholic cardinals and atheist bloggers
Atheist blogger JT Eberhard has a piece accusing the Catholic Church of supporting the Pinochet regime in Chile. This is somewhat surprising given the conventional wisdom is that the Chilean Catholic Church under Cardinal Silva basically ran what little internal … Continue reading
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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
And another note on the circumcision bill
Like I predicted, the Bundesrat forworded the circumcision bill to the Bundestag without objections. The first reading in the Bundestag is scheduled for the 208th session on the 22nd of November. Thats a bit later than I predicted, probably because … 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
The prophesy of Caiaphas
So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we going to do? This man is performing many signs. If we leave him alone, all will believe in him, and the Romans will come and … Continue reading
Some political worrying on the side
So when the Euro unravels and if it does so disorderedly, how much of the rest of European integration does it take down with it?
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
Eternal articles and judical review
One of the most famous features of the Basic Law is its eternity clause in article 79 (official translation, emphasis mine): Article 79 (1) This Basic Law may be amended only by a law expressly amending or supplementing its text. … Continue reading