Finally – a new presentation!
Tuesday, September 1st, 2015 Posted in Education, General Science, Internet | No Comments »Finally, I have released a new YouTube video at the following link : http://youtu.be/ihCUC8Derhs. In this one, I talk about the difference between science as an idealised process for learning about the world, and science as an actual establishment implemented ...
ChessBrain
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011 Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Internet | No Comments »Hi all, As you may or may not know, I was involved in the ChessBrain project several years ago, which set a world record for computation, networking together over 2,000 computers to play a single game of chess. THe project lead ...
More Fraud Ratings
Saturday, January 15th, 2011 Posted in Internet | No Comments »So I was just browsing through some old files the other day and I came across the script that I wrote to gather fraud ratings. We've seen this a few times before in this blog, but briefly to recap - ...
Sense about Science
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 Posted in General, General Science, Health, Internet, Politics | No Comments »Hi all, Okay, so I haven't written for two months. Apologies for that. I'm afraid other things have been hihger priority recently. However, I'm just writing a brief note to urge everyone to sign up on the Sense About Science petition There's ...
Fun with Fraud Ratings
Sunday, February 1st, 2009 Posted in Internet, Paranormal | 2 Comments »Those of you who have been following for a while will remember my previous work on fraud ratings. Remember that a fraud rating is not claiming that a person is a fraud, lest I get sued: it is simply a ...
Looking Ahead to 2009 – Part 4
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 Posted in General, Internet | No Comments »In this final part of my 'look ahead to 2009' series, I'm looking at technology. What were the trends that dominated 2008, and what can we expect in the year ahead? There have been several large trends that have been extremely ...
Browne’s ‘Fraud Rating’ jumps sharply
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 Posted in Internet, Paranormal | No Comments »Here's an interesting discovery over the last week: Sylvia Browne's fraud rating has suddenly shot up by over three times! Between 29th September and 6th October 2008, despite a fall of nearly 5% in the number of web pages mentioning her ...
Interesting developments in the fraud ratings
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 Posted in Internet | No Comments »Many of you will have read my original post a few weeks ago on fraud ratings. I proposed the system as a (highly flawed) method for tracking public sentiment about publicly visible paranormal claimants. Well, there have been interesting developments ...
Powerpoint Library
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in Creationism, Education, Internet | No Comments »I've had a cunning plan. Believe it or not, it began when I watched a debate between Kent Hovind and Michael Shermer that I blogged about ages ago. I noticed that every single thing Shermer said, Hovind had a ready-prepared ...
Fraud ratings
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Posted in Internet, Paranormal | No Comments »As part of my new role as Cyber-Skeptic (TM), I thought I'd start monitoring some other numbers that people might find interesting. So, here's introducing the fraud ratings system. Yet again, this comes thanks to those wonderful folks at Google. Here's ...
