Simpson’s Paradox In The Slush Pile
Simpson’s Paradox, not racism, might be behind the discrepancy in publication acceptances between Western and minority writers.
Evolution Of The Obvious: The Foster-Kokko Model Of Superstition
Kevin Foster and Hanna Kokko’s paper claims that superstition (might) persist in a population provided it has survival value. Naturally. Some objections to these types of arguments.
Fishy Transference
A recent experiment seems to show some species of fish can do transitive inference. Specifically, they can figure out that if A outfights B and B outfights C, then A can outfight C. My goldfish writes a rebuttal.
Caste, Closure & Contagion
Caste is not the same thing as class or race. I argue that it’s better to think of it as a “closure system” rather than a hierarchy. A closure system is … what the heck, read the damn thing. Inspired by Christopher Alexander’s essay: “A City Is Not A Tree.”
The God of Small Things
A paen to R. L. Goodstein’s miraculous theorem in Proof theory. What’s it about? The God of Small Things of course.