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Thinking Prohibited!
It spreads like plague, contaminating and infecting more and more organizations. After all, it’s so much easier to just do things without having to think about their consequences, or the very next steps that you may need to take. Even the supposedly proactive MO of “don’t ask for permission, ask for forgiveness,” that has been…
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And You Thought It Couldn’t Get Any More Unhinged
I was once told by a very good friend of mine (with slightly different points of view) that I was “stalking” the President, after I shared with them a couple of his social medial posts. In one of those posts, the President shared an AI-generated video showing a Trump hotel (or maybe casino) in what…
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I Think, Therefore I Am. I Won, Therefore I Rule
René Descartes had famously used the statement “I think, therefore I am,” as a starting point for his philosophical inquiries, where he used the act of thinking as an evidence for the existence of the thinker. While most, if not all, philosophical statements are abstractions based on observations and not proven facts, their acceptance and…
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Weaponization of the DoJ
“President Donald Trump ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi and other top officials Thursday to investigate two of his former first-term officials who publicly refuted his baseless claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent and criticized his chaotic administration from within.” I wonder if Jim Jordan will make as much noise, or open an investigation, as…
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Fixing the Elections, or Voter Suppression?
In the last post, I discussed the magnitude of potential errors due to ineligible voters in the election results in the US, and proposed a very generous confidence interval of 0.01%, based on the results of a recent investigation from the state of Georgia, a with substantial amount of overestimation and scaling to be applicable…
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Elections, or Statistical Experiments?
As you can guess from the title of this post, I am trying to pose elections as statistical experiments. I know there is a big difference; unlike polling, elections do not involve taking a sample of data to make a decision. Instead, every single vote is expected to be counted in every election. So, yes,…
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Minimum Qualifications for Holding Public Office
Back then when the former president would refer to his political rivals as “very low-IQ” individuals, implying that he himself has a very high IQ score, I used to fantasize about congress calling the bluff and making a minimum IQ score as a requirement for running for public office. But then I remembered instances like…
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No Longer Surprised!
A few friends had expressed surprise over Trump’s nominees for top positions in his incoming administration. Quite frankly, I was a bit surprised too; even for Trump, some of the nominees are quite out there! But then I came across this piece in which Don Jr announces his heavy involvement “on” the transition, and expresses…