Calling BS In The Age of Big Data (Warning/Language)

[Doka]

I wish us all well and good luck as we face the "Tall Weeds" of deception. The "Test" is for us. Will we be wheat or chaff ?Only the individual will know, what is in their own hearts. AND yes, it does matter.

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Calling Bull **** In the Age of Big Data

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The world is awash in ****. Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release. So-called higher education often rewards **** over analytic thought. Startup culture has elevated **** to high art. Advertisers wink conspiratorially and invite us to join them in seeing through all the ****, then take advantage of our lowered guard to bombard us with second-order ****. The majority of administrative activity, whether in private business or the public sphere, often seems to be little more than a sophisticated exercise in the combinatorial reassembly of ****.

We're sick of it. It's time to do something, and as educators, one constructive thing we know how to do is to teach people. So, the aim of this course is to help students navigate the ****-rich modern environment by identifying ****, seeing through it, and combating it with effective analysis and argument.

What do we mean, exactly, by the term ****? As a first approximation, **** language intended to persuade by impressing and overwhelming a reader or listener, with a blatant disregard for truth and logical coherence.

The Rest of the Article
http://****.org

[Doka]

It appears that the PTB or maybe it is just me ,do not want this site to be read. So we will approach it from a different way, if you have a problem......

Go Here you will see in the 2nd paragraph a highlighted Web Site "The BS Syllabus"

It’s from The Bull$hit Syllabus, which was created by University of Washington Professors Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West, who are trying to combat The Bull$hit. The syllabus includes questions and standards for data scientists to think about and use.


http://blog.themistrading.com/2017/01/t ... -****/

[kbot]

Someone's slamming down. That site isn't working either

[Doka]

OK this is a revolting development!

Try this , I found it here, then followed to the Blog, then followed to the to the Professors BS Site , see if you can do the same? I have the 2 other websites on my tablet, just can't pass the sites to here any way. Really weird


The World Is Awash In BS

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-2 ... h-**** start here

[Doka]

Can't believe this..........Go here

http://www.zerohedge.com/

scroll down untill you find article it has picture of a meter on it..........

[Riddick]

I have the 2 other websites on my tablet, just can't pass the sites to here any way. Really weird

Would you believe it's only so weird as the forum's code is set to censor a 'bad word' wherever it finds one even within website addresses?

Yet don't you worry, never fear, tinyurl.com is here! --

http://tinyurl.com/callingbullsh-t-dot-org

http://tinyurl.com/blog-themistrading-callingBS

http://tinyurl.com/zerohedge-callingBS

But WAIT! There's MORE -
A classic Professor Carlin lecture on the prevalence of you-know-whut

[Doka]

Hey Thanks Riddick! I was wondering about, the Ships filters. Got to be a good sign that we haven't tested them before, or has it been?

[Riddick]

Hey Thanks Riddick! I was wondering about, the Ships filters. Got to be a good sign that we haven't tested them before, or has it been?

Not lately. Some time back I recall seeing posts that triggered the filters but they were few and far between.

[kbot]

Hey Thanks Riddick! I was wondering about, the Ships filters. Got to be a good sign that we haven't tested them before, or has it been?

Not lately. Some time back I recall seeing posts that triggered the filters but they were few and far between.

Gonna go out on a ledge now and say at least one was mine........