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Every Result Of Unsupervised Learning Is Correct; Or, All Learning Is Supervised

The real point I wish to make is that there is no such thing as unsupervised learning; or, stated another way, Truth exists; or, stated another way, every solution to an unsupervised learning problem...

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Why I’m Unconvinced By Penrose’s Entropy/Anthropic Argument

There are a number of “constants” used in physics, such as the speed of light, the Planck constant, elementary charge and so forth. Some of these constants are bare, meaning they do not have a...

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Why Is Rape Wrong? Science Has No Answer

The sobbin’ women. Rape, right or wrong? Depends on how you define rape, you might say, Very well, define it how you like. Now answer the question: right or wrong? Here is what science tells us about...

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Summary Against Modern Thought: Human Souls Begin At Conception Part I

This may be proved in three ways. The first…See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post....

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Summary Against Modern Thought: Human Souls Begin At Conception Part II

This may be proved in three ways. The first…See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post....

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Summary Against Modern Thought: Human Souls Begin At Conception Part III

This may be proved in three ways. The first…See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post....

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Machines Can’t Learn (Universals): The Abacus As Brain Part II

Read Our Intellects Are Not Computers: The Abacus As Brain Part I first. Machines can learn, all right. But they can’t learn like us. Machines cannot apprehend universals, ideas of truth and falsity,...

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Summary Against Modern Thought: Animal Souls Aren’t Immortal

This may be proved in three ways. The first…See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post....

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The Gremlins Of MCMC: Or, Computer Simulations Are Not What You Think

“Let me get this straight. You said what makes your car go?” “You heard me. Gremlins.” “Grelims make your car go.” “Look, it’s obvious. The cars runs, doesn’t it? It has to run for some reason, right?...

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God’s Periodic Table & Evolution — Guest Post by Bob Kurland

Note: This post first appeared at Reflections of the Catholic Scientist. “Those distinct substances, which concretes generally either afford, or are made up of, may, without very much inconvenience,...

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Summary Against Modern Thought: The Soul Begins At Conception, Part I

This may be proved in three ways. The first…See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post....

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Reasoning To Belief: Feser’s The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New...

This series originally began 5 August 2012. The links to the remainder are below. Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part Interlude, Part IV, Part V, Part VI. Part Last. This begins a series of posts...

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Summary Against Modern Thought: The Soul Begins At Conception, Part II

This may be proved in three ways. The first…See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post....

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Atheists Can’t Trust Reason — Or Anything

Plantinga I saw on Twitter another version of the old you-can’t-trust-reason-without-God argument, under the title “On the futility of attempting rational discourse with atheists.” It went like this....

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You Lie! Said the Geocentrist to the Catholic Scientist — Guest Post by Bob...

Note: this post first appeared on Reflections of a Catholic Scientist. “People give ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun...

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Summary Against Modern Thought: The Soul Begins At Conception, Part III

This may be proved in three ways. The first…See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post....

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Summary Against Modern Thought: We Are Not Part Of God

This may be proved in three ways. The first…See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post....

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Summary Against Modern Thought: The Human Soul Is Not Transmitted Via Sex,...

This may be proved in three ways. The first…See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. A...

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Summary Against Modern Thought: The Human Soul Is Created By God, Part II

This may be proved in three ways. The first…See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. A...

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The Theory of Diversity Explained

The new Chief Diversity Officer at WMBriggs.com Thanks to Google we are reminded that Diversity is the dumbest idea in the West, bar none. Even communism, even atheism, makes more sense. Diversity is...

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