Sunday, December 18, 2016

A man with a conviction is a hard man to change.

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From When Prophecy Fails -- A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World by Leon Festinge...
Saturday, December 17, 2016

Deceit, misdirection, and obfuscation

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This is fascinating. As a consequence of the unexpected loss of their candidate to Donald Trump, the mainstream media has been in overdri...
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An ideology of joylessness and depression

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The mind of the socialist is inimical to human happiness. I bet the Christmas party at The Guardian is a riot pic.twitter.com/45a4uOd33i —...
Friday, December 16, 2016

Don't turn your back on experience

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My father's career was in the international oil industry and I grew up around the world, wherever there was oil or the hope of discoveri...

In peace you reward the military for avoiding risk and in war you want the same commanders to aggressively exercise risk

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From LCS Shock Trials Were Less Severe Than Navy Standard by MarEx. In written testimony for the Senate Armed Services committee, Dr. Micha...
Thursday, December 15, 2016

Failures in forecasting

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Paul Krugman has long been an ideological commentator. I did not know that the conversion from Nobel prize winning economist to failed pund...

Balancing deep awareness of existing knowledge vs. making new connections and developing new interpretations

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As the floodgates of information have opened and data and detritus flowed through since the internet, I have tried to be conscientious in my...
Wednesday, December 14, 2016

First seek the data and then spot the patterns

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I came across Climate Scientists Take to the Streets to Protest Trump by David Kirby. On Sunday, Donald Trump told Fox News that “nobody ...

Piping the penguin

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Brilliant. Who would have believed that the perfect Wikipedia photo caption could have been improved upon? pic.twitter.com/pLedKWbs1o — Al...

Open and transparent communication leads to superior outcomes

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This is interesting but I can't tell how interesting because it is behind a firewall. From the abstract of Durable Coalitions and Comm...