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The Objective Pursuit of Knowledge
Why statistical thinking is postmodern.
Jun 8 • Ben Recht
We're Computerizing and Don't Need You
On the good intentions and bizarre conclusions of evidence-based medicine
Jun 4 • Ben Recht
Mesmerized by My Own Beat
On the history of anticoagulation and the role of randomized evidence in cardiology.
Jun 2 • Ben Recht
Sharing different heartbeats
On the power of large-scale randomized trials in cardiology.
May 29 • Ben Recht
Only One Company Makes the Game Monopoly
Revisiting David Graeber's theories of bureaucracy, violence, and interpretative labor.
May 26 • Ben Recht
Individual Experience vs. The Cochrane Review
On my decade-long exploration seeking a scientific language for singular evidence.
May 20 • Ben Recht
The Quantification Trap
A computational paradox of the postmodern condition.
May 11 • Ben Recht
The Rationality of the Language Machines
Are LLMs mathematically rational?
May 7 • Ben Recht
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