Plausible Reasoning 12

Plausible Reasoning 12

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...

Plausible Reasoning 12

Plausible Reasoning 10

The "law" of averages and God playing dice In the future, government AI might decide your odds of criminality, or requirements for injection, based upon any number of frequentist statistical models. I. The Null Hypothesis Ritual. The American Statistical Association...

Born poor, but raised well. Marine, helo pilot, judge advocate, lawyer, tech startup guy... wannabe writer. Lucky in love, laughing 'til the end.

AMST-3

Spring 1993 - Beginnings and Endings... [Author note: It will probably help if you read AMST-1/Intro and AMST-2 before reading this one for background and context.] When Marines Still Wore Choker Whites - in the background, the CO holds our newest daughter We are...

Aviation Mishaps: Part 1, an Introduction

I'll get to this story (eventually) There I was… in the Ready Room When I was a youngling wanna-be pilot in the post-Top Gun Era of the early ‘90s, there was a military aviation magazine called “Approach” that populated all of the Ready Rooms where we wannabes sat and...

The Spark: Chapter 7

After his first stop at the convenience store near his apartment for a drink he knew he had surveillance. By the time he left his second stop he identified which surveillance team was following him.

The Spark: Chapter 6

She tells me she gave up her teaching job. She’s laughing. “They said learn to code, so I did.” She looks more beautiful than I’ve ever seen her in her whole life.

The Spark: Chapter 3

“Appointment with the Chief, Mister Jefferts?” Flora Gonzalez was sixty or so, matronly, with a number of years as a loyal personal assistant. She also brooked no nonsense and guarded the Chief’s time jealously.