1948-2023 . Retired Statistician, Poet, author, historian and campaigner. Co-founder of International Society for Bayesian Analysis and of the Edinburgh All Comers Writers Club and Participant in the 2019 UCL Eugenics Inquiry.
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Tuesday, 21 July 2015
A VISUAL GUIDE TO BAYESIAN THINKING (Julia Galef)
YOUTUBE VIDEO
Julia Galef
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR BAYESIAN ANALYSIS (ISBA)
Pierre-Simon, Le Marquis de Laplace
The Founder of Bayesian Statistics
MY PERSONAL HISTORY OF BAYESIAN STATISTICS
Monday, 20 July 2015
Sunday, 19 July 2015
THE CULT OF JAHWEH (Professor Nicholas Wyatt)
Saturday, 18 July 2015
CRIME STATISTICS: COUNTING SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T WANT TO BE COUNTED by Oz Flanagan
CRIME STATISTICS: COUNTING SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T WANT TO
BE COUNTED
An Article in Statslife by Oz Flanagan
followed by a comment by myself
OXONIAN NOON, A Poem by James L.S. Carter
OXONIAN NOON
by James L.S. Carter
From every quad to every quad, from quads
Cloistered in thoughts, like gardens' summer-times,
Drift to the Isis the long-lasting chimes
Of bells across the green where stillness lauds
The bells, seeming to rob the noise of Gods
Who would be summoned by a passion's crimes
Such as make way into bard's sorry rhymes
Suffered thro' centuries at Honour Mods.
But Lares ands Penates, Dryads, Sylphs
And Bulgars lately escaped the continent
Are here in plenty by each battlement
Whose gargoyles'grimaces cleansed of all filths
And grimes but the original can't peep
Through crenels where secret courtyards sleep.
Friday, 17 July 2015
OH GREAT SPIRIT, A poem by Nicola Romanski
OH GREAT SPIRIT
by Nicola Romanski
The protection be wrought from beyond the veil
Oh great spirit,
whose voice I hear in the winds,
and whose breath gives life to all the world,
-hear me-
I come before you, one of your children.
I am small and meak
I need your strength and wisdom.
Let me walk in beauty and make my eyes ever
behold the red and purple sunset.
Make my hands respect the things you have made,
My ears sharp to hear your voice.
Make me wise so that I may know the things
you have taught my people,
The lesson you have hidden in every leaf and rock.
I seek strength not to be superior to my brothers,
but to be able to fight my greatest enemy myself.
Make me ever ready to come to you,
with clean hands and straight eyes,
so when life fades as a fading sunset,
my spirit may come to you without shame.
by Nicola Romanski
The protection be wrought from beyond the veil
Oh great spirit,
whose voice I hear in the winds,
and whose breath gives life to all the world,
-hear me-
I come before you, one of your children.
I am small and meak
I need your strength and wisdom.
Let me walk in beauty and make my eyes ever
behold the red and purple sunset.
Make my hands respect the things you have made,
My ears sharp to hear your voice.
Make me wise so that I may know the things
you have taught my people,
The lesson you have hidden in every leaf and rock.
I seek strength not to be superior to my brothers,
but to be able to fight my greatest enemy myself.
Make me ever ready to come to you,
with clean hands and straight eyes,
so when life fades as a fading sunset,
my spirit may come to you without shame.
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