Elephantstrunk

A UN resolution that is.
Tony Blair says:
The hostilities on both sides should cease immediately now that the resolution has finally been agreed by the whole of the international community
Sorry Tony. Even Kofi Annan thinks this is pretty pathetic:
This inability to act sooner has badly shaken the world’s faith in this authority and its integrity
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Reading here about flexible perceptions of reality illustrated a shortcoming of Bayesian updating as a model of learning.
In the Bayesian model learners have prior expectations about the outcome of an event, the event occurs and the probability of the outcome given expectations is used to update the expectations. In this model learners obey a […]