AI Prompt: Our knowledge of the world is uncertain, our place in it is not. In this final installment, I’ll do some summary, provide one, okay, a couple more examples of frequentism gone wrong, with one example I find instructive from the Covid-19 war crime ahem,...
Learned Hand, Carroll Towing, and PR in Action In the first 11 of these, I’ve tried to lay the groundwork for what has always been the ultimate goal, which is a detailed look at how plausible reasoning manifests in the law, both wrongly and rightly, in comparison to...
The Law Meets the Philosophy of Science I. Scientific Evidence in the Courts - a History Pre-Primer. The leading legal authority on scientific evidence for as long as I have been practicing law1 - and well before that - has been Edward J. Imwinkelreid. For those who...
Ten. Yes, part 10.
Not a bad job by AI-imagebot given my lengthy prompt I. A PostScript on Medical Diagnosticism and Math-Mal.1 My favorite story that encapsulates what’s wrong with modern medical diagnosticism comes from a friend’s childhood, circa the mid-1960s. Evidently the family...
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Part 7.
AI Prompt: A trout in a glass pitcher of milk (AI brain struggling with Thoreau) “Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.”Henry David thoreau I promise the above is a real quote and not the opening of a Monty Python sketch;...
Think about it.
Part 4.
Logically…
Part 2.
A new beginning.
Alles in Endnung.
A Story About a Certain Aviation Technology in Two Parts At last we come to the almost end… too much aerodynamics to put this all in one post. “There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.”―Thomas Sowell in “A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of...
Part 15
Another day at the office… “Buddy, you flew that one like Steve McQueen.” Clark ‘Swab’ Cox wasn’t a man of many words - laconic might as well have been made just for him - so it caught me off guard and I laughed. I had just finished my second landing to the...
The venerable CH-46 Sea Knight, the mighty Battle Phrog, now replaced by the tilt-rotor MV-22 Osprey In (at least) Episode 9 of this series, I stated the following: Always remember, Kids! Even under the best of circumstances, it can all go to shit in an instant.One of...
Not Today, Satan! Shortly after Squire’s crash, our squadron got tasked with providing a test pilot - a post-maintenance functional check pilot - to go to MCAS Yuma, AZ, for the upcoming Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course. Given staffing at the squadron...
Note: Prior pieces in this series can be found at AMST 1, AMST 2, AMST 3, AMST 4, AMST 5, AMST 6, AMST 7, AMST 8, AMST 9, AMST 10] I. An Alpha, Omega, and Alpha… Ron "Wiggy" Walkerwicz’s death on February 16, 1996 (AMST 10), cast a pall over the deployment for me....
I. Prologue - Requiescat in Pace Life got in the way - I had an important motion due in a case - and thus there was a brief hiatus from writing my aviation mishap stories. Now we return with even more gusto! WARNING - the next few episodes, unfortunately,...
[Auth. note - for better context, these are the previous “episodes” in this series: AMST 1, AMST 2, AMST 3, AMST 4, AMST 5, AMST 6, AMST 7] A Collection of Tales Always remember, Kids! Even under the best of circumstances, it can all go to shit in an instant. - One of...
More Stuff Top Gun Never Mentions [Note: Prior pieces in this series can be found at AMST 1, AMST 2, AMST 3, AMST 4, AMST 5, AMST 6, AMST 7] PostScript to a Crash After “the crash” - as I like to think of it - the squadron performed...
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