There are some days when you have to ask yourself, just what is the deal with men. I don't mean our general demeanour, or the pretensions of superiority over other genders. No, I'm talking about the strange things that men decide to do when left alone for too long.The  men who happily dangle their members inside bottles, or in reach of the spinning blades of a vacuum cleaner not thinking of the consequences. With this in mind, we arrive at a case study by Bedi et al, where they […]

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Last time, I posted about Jim Joyce's argument for Probabilism.  At its heart lies a mathematical theorem.  In this post, I state this mathematical theorem and prove it; then I generalize it and prove the generalization.  The frameworkRecall from last time:$\mathcal{F}$ is a finite set of propositions.  (It is the set of propositions about which our agent has an opinion.)A credence function is a function $c : \mathcal{F} \rightarrow [0, 1]$. Throughout the present post, we […]

“Did they ever meet?” I would get the question all the time. People would ask what I was working on, and I would say a book about Einstein and Freud, and then would come the question. Same thing with my next book. People would ask what I was working on, and I would say a [...]

There’s really exciting news in the world of number theory, my old field. I heard about it last month but it just hit the mainstream press. Namely, mathematician Yitang Zhang just proved is that there are infinitely many pairs of primes that differ by at most 70,000,000. His proof is available here and, unlike Mochizuki’s claim of […]