I want punishment for students who want punishment for people who wear "offensive" Halloween costumes:https://t.co/ZIkxZKr1F6
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) October 30, 2019
An appropriate "punishment" would be having to take a course on the Bill of Rights and particularly the First Amendment.
Category Archives: Education
Model Land
Judith Curry, on a new paper concerning how to escape from it:
Naïvely, we might hope that by making incremental improvements to the “realism” of a model (more accurate representations, greater details of processes, finer spatial or temporal resolution, etc.) we would also see incremental improvement in the outputs. Regarding the realism of short-term trajectories, this may well be true. It is not expected to be true in terms of probability forecasts. The nonlinear compound effects of any given small tweak to the model structure are so great that calibration becomes a very computationally-intensive task and the marginal performance benefits of additional subroutines or processes may be zero or even negative. In plainer terms, adding detail to the model can make it less accurate, less useful. [Emphasis added]
Computer models can be useful in some circumstances, but they are not science.
Fraying
Thoughts from Sarah Hoyt on the Cold Civil War.
Indoctrination
Teachers’ union teaches teachers how to make students woke.
Universities
Middle America
Will the Democrats blow it again?
All signs point to “yes,” and that’s a good thing.
Bridging The Cultural Divide
A long, but interesting essay.
Sergei Brin
An open letter from Dennis Prager to him, on freedom of speech.
Saying “Triggered”
No, New York Times, it will not turn your kid into a Nazi.
Young Socialists And Communists
Thoughts on their ignorant brutality.