Lars P. Syll

ZEIT: Ist Ihr Modell des Grundeinkommens übertragbar auf das ganze Land? Bohmeyer: Mit unserem Modell geht es nicht. Bei uns finanziert sich das Grundeinkommen ja durch Crowdfunding von vielen Tausend Menschen für einige wenige, die es ausgezahlt bekommen. Das lässt sich nicht auf alle ausweiten … ZEIT: Sollte es für alle eingeführt werden? Bohmeyer: So weit sind wir noch nicht. Wenn ich es zu früh konkret mache, dann sprechen wir nicht mehr über das Wesentliche: die...

 [embedded content] Till minnet av min vän Bengt Nilsson. Det gör fortfarande ont. Det känns ofta — som du brukade säga — ‘förtvivlat.’ Men jag minns också skratten, glädjen, omtanken, den mäktiga intelligensen, den drastiska humorn, och det starka sociala patoset. Livet går vidare, men kommer alltid att vara lite gråare, lite tristare, utan dig min vän.

 [embedded content] Nothing — absolutely nothing — beats the 60’s when it comes to pop music.

Bayesian statistics — an introduction If you look for a Bayesian statistics textbook accessible also to students with limited knowledge of statistics and math — this is the book!

What it takes​ to become a great economist The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts …​ He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher—in some degree. He must understand symbols and speak in words. He must contemplate the particular, in terms of the general, and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the present in the light of the past for the purposes of the future. No part of man’s nature...

Finland’s basic income experiment​ — a preliminary evaluation According to the analysis of the register data, basic income recipients were no better or worse at finding employment than those in the control group during the first year of the experiment, and in this respect there are no statistically significant differences between the groups … According to the analysis of the survey data, the wellbeing of the basic income recipients was clearly better than...

 [embedded content] Lors de la manifestation des ‘gilets jaunes’ à Paris de ce samedi, le philosophe Alain Finkielkraut a été insulté par certains manifestants avec des expressions antisémites. «Ni victime ni héros,» mais d’abord «inquiet pour tous les Juifs de France,» Finkielkraut ne porte pas plainte: «Ce n’est pas l’esprit de vengeance qui m’anime, mais j’ai envie de contribuer à la prise de conscience. Il s’agit aujourd’hui de réfléchir à ce qui nous arrive, pour trouver...

Machine learning — getting results that are completely wrong Machine-learning techniques used by thousands of scientists to analyse data are producing results that are misleading and often completely wrong. Dr Genevera Allen from Rice University in Houston said that the increased use of such systems was contributing to a “crisis in science” … The data sets are very large and expensive. But, according to Dr Allen, the answers they come up with are likely to...

 [embedded content] This satirical film is not far from reality today. Most of us working within the universities have for a long time been aware of what the degradation of teaching and research do to both students and teachers. [h/t Steve Keen]

Why I am not a Bayesian What I do not believe is that the relation that matters is simply the entailment relation between the theory, on the one hand, and the evidence on the other. The reasons that the relation cannot be simply that of entailment are exactly the reasons why the hypothetico-deductive account … is inaccurate; but the suggestion is at least correct in sensing that our judgment of the relevance of evidence to theory depends on the perception...