Archive - arg min

Milton Friedman's p-values

Remind me what happens when a measure becomes a target.

Jun 10 •

The Open Marketplace of Ideas

If peer review only refers to papers, it is not defensible

Jun 5 •

A Defense of Peer Review

Jun 3 •

May 2025

The Good, The Bad, and The Science

Who should define what is "good" and "bad" science?

May 29 •

There is no reproducibility crisis in science. So what is JD Vance on about?

May 27 •

May you live in boring times

Louis Fein’s utopian vision of academic computer science

May 13 •

Physics for Synnoets

George Forsythe's vision of computer science

May 9 •

Computational Mythmaking

More on the cultivation of a "pure" computer science.

May 7 •

Computer science is what computer scientists do

Louis Fein's conception of computer science as an the academic discipline.

May 5 •

April 2025

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