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… our support beyond Labor’s heartland. The polls closed at 10 o’clock. I knew Bibi would be staring at the same Channel One newscast as I was, each of us ready to put the best spin on things, especially if there was no clear sign at this stage which one of us had won. But the exi...

…Where defendants claimed immunity under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and plaintiffs asserted the application of one or more exceptions to immunity, the court had jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1330 & 1605. In addition, actions originally filed in other jurisdiction...

… people have thanked me for writing it. As always, though, there's some mixed feedback too. And I've been worried about one thing in particular: it seems like a lot of people missed the part in my article where I said that, now that I've learned how to have orgasms... orgasms are...

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Because what else would make a periodic signal? It turned out to be a rotating neutron star. One criterion to apply to a potentially purposeful phenomenon is whether it’s minimal in achieving a purpose. But does that mean that it was built for the purpose? The ball rolls down th...

…me flowers. I thought that men would feel relieved that they didn't "have to cater to me," but they were just puzzled. (One responded by buying me fake flowers.) Because of the awful shaming stereotypes around cunnilingus, I sometimes refused that too. I couldn't believe that th...

…computer programs, brain mechanisms and other complicated systems, even cultural or spiritual movements, to behave when one or more important control parameters crosses a threshold. Doyne Farmer of the Los Alamos’s Prediction Company once said about this vulnerability in complex...

… security cabinet, when I would come, as deputy chief of staff, to present military operations for approval. I remember one occasion when an air force general laid out the details of a planned helicopter-borne mission into Lebanon. I added a few remarks in summary. Raful Eitan an...

…ease connect the dots for our readers. Siegel: Just as I used to look at Hitler when I was young and be amazed that no one could see what he was about, in retrospect the same applies to Hasan. It is precisely all the elements of the Control Factor that could allow this man, a So...

…ive and continuous undertaking makes these perceptions all the more familiar and thus seemingly all the more “real.” In one sense, the Control Factor is the mechanism of what Andy McCarthy entitled one of his numerous excellent books- willful blindness. The Control Factor is clev...

…n the causal-inference arena? Are we prepared to circumvent the theoretical impediments that prevent us from going from one level of the hierarchy to another level?” I view machine learning as a tool to get us from data to probabilities. But then we still have to make two extra...

Deep Blue York, watching a chess match. It’s no ordinary match. Two men sit opposite each other. One, a neatly suited figure, stares intently at the board. You can almost see the heat rising from his head as he processes the possibilities before him. The other, sits implacably...

…n the account she gave at trial: that he had raped her on the bed with no prior consensual involvement on her part. No one except Tyson and Washington knows exactly what went on behind the closed doors of his hotel room. There was no videotape. Nor was there any physical evidenc...

…imple neural networks didn’t do much. Frank Rosenblatt invented a learning device he called the perceptron, which was a one-layer neural network. In the late sixties, Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert wrote a book titled Perceptrons, in which they basically proved that perceptrons...

…sn’t say how. It will open that can of worms, and others too, and try to track some but not all to their destinations. One look leads to another. This shows that I’m not an optimist in the sense of making rosy predictions. But I seem to show that bias in evaluations. I’m two th...