Archive - The Confidence Interval

I'm the proud owner of a bookish child. Since he learned to read it's been the main activity of his days. Francis Spufford in The Child That Books Built…

Oct 3, 2023 •

June 2023

The Drowning Billionaires and the Expanding Circle

I'm sure you've seen plenty of, ah, commentary on social media about the loss of the OceanGate submersible which was taking a group of visitors to the…

Jun 22, 2023 •

The Alien ER and the Amyloid Hypothesis

So imagine a bunch of aliens come to earth and decide to run a hospital emergency room (I promise this is going somewhere). They don't know anything…

Jun 12, 2023 •

May 2023

This is The Confidence Interval.

May 25, 2023 •

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