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selfawarepatterns.com
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| | | | | A question long argued in the philosophy of science is the demarcation problem. How to we distinguish science from non-science? Karl Popper famously proposed falsifiability as a criteria. To be science, a theory must make predictions that could turn out to be wrong. It must be falsifiable. Theories that are amorphous or flexible enough to... | |
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scottaaronson.blog
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| | | | | My good friend Sean Carroll took a lot of flak recently for answering this year's Edge question, "What scientific idea is ready for retirement?," with "Falsifiability", and for using string theory and the multiverse as examples of why science needs to break out of its narrow Popperian cage. For more, seethis blog post of Sean's,... | |
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apgaylard.wordpress.com
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| | | | | Reviewing the slides of Lionel Milgrom's recent lecture at the "Scientific Research in Homeopathy" conference shows how low he is prepared to go to construct his fantasy of the "New Fundamentalists". Marvel at the logical fallacies, mis-quotations and mis-understandings. | |
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izbicki.me
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| | | [AI summary] This post explains how to create loaded dice for the board game Settlers of Catan, demonstrating a bias that can give a player an advantage, and discusses statistical methods to prove the bias while highlighting limitations in scientific testing. | ||
