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Seduced by Numbers

A Review of the book , “Escape from Model Land” in The WSJ explains the limits of models in determining policy.  My Life as a Quant was written decades ago about an academic with a Phd in math and physics hired by a hedge fund to construct risk models.  He...

Sensitivity to Contradiction

from The Global Warming Statistical Meltdown by Judith Curry in The Wall Street Journal Excerpts: Human-caused warming depends not only on increases in greenhouse gases but also on how “sensitive” the climate is to these increases. Climate sensitivity is defined as...