{"id":6713,"date":"2021-09-17T20:33:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T04:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6713"},"modified":"2021-09-17T20:33:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T04:33:14","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-318","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2021\/09\/17\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-318","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 318"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4396\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=1200%2C1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\"><\/a> First, a word to new stu\u00addents: wel\u00adcome! This might be your first email from Chi Alpha and if so you might be a lit\u00adtle con\u00adfused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the last sev\u00ader\u00adal years, I have been shar\u00ading articles\/resources every Fri\u00adday about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was inspired by the tribe of Issachar from the time of King David. They pro\u00adduced shrewd war\u00adriors \u201cwho under\u00adstood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). In a sim\u00adi\u00adlar way, we need to become wise peo\u00adple whose faith inter\u00adacts with the world. I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may con\u00adtin\u00adue the tra\u00addi\u00adtion of Issachar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Be sure to see the dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. Also, I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions. If you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All that hav\u00ading been said, here is 318<sup>th<\/sup> roundup of things I have found inter\u00adest\u00ading (318, I am told, is the num\u00adber of unla\u00adbeled&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/mathworld.wolfram.com\/PartiallyOrderedSet.html\">par\u00adtial\u00adly ordered sets<\/a>&nbsp;of 6 ele\u00adments).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"simple-list wp-block-list\"><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/frenchpress.thedispatch.com\/p\/the-american-crisis-of-selective\">The Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Cri\u00adsis of Selec\u00adtive Empa\u00adthy<\/a> (David French, The Dis\u00adpatch): \u201c\u2026Amer\u00adi\u00adca is expe\u00adri\u00adenc\u00ading an empa\u00adthy cri\u00adsis. But it\u2019s not quite the cri\u00adsis you might think. Our empa\u00adthy can over\u00adflow for the peo\u00adple we love, for the peo\u00adple with\u00adin our tribe\u2014even when they make grave errors. But what about our empa\u00adthy for \u2018them,\u2019 the peo\u00adple we dis\u00adtrust? Then empa\u00adthy is in short sup\u00adply. Indeed, in some cas\u00ades, the very con\u00adcept of empa\u00adthy is under fire.\u201d<ul><li>Relat\u00aded: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/10\/opinion\/covid-empathy-grief.html\">The Lim\u00adits of My Empa\u00adthy for Covid Deniers<\/a> (Tressie McMil\u00adlan Cot\u00adtom, New York Times): \u201cBecause I val\u00adue being a think\u00ading per\u00adson, I hon\u00ador emo\u00adtions like empa\u00adthy, fear, joy and trust to guide me around the pit\u00adfalls of my ego. Ego makes for real\u00adly slop\u00adpy analy\u00adsis and writ\u00ading. I am at a point where head\u00adlines about ill and dying Covid deniers do not pull at my empa\u00adthy strings the way I want them to.\u201d<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2021\/09\/norm-macdonalds-spiritual-journey\">Norm Macdonald\u2019s Spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal Jour\u00adney<\/a> (Nic Rowan, First Things): \u201cMac\u00addon\u00adald may have only been dab\u00adbling in Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty, but his crit\u00adi\u00adcisms of the post-Chris\u00adt\u00adian world were often inci\u00adsive. He had no tol\u00ader\u00adance for sci\u00aden\u00adtism and laughed at athe\u00adists. He fre\u00adquent\u00adly lam\u00adpooned the likes of Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, and Bill Maher. And he wasn\u2019t afraid to make dark pre\u00addic\u00adtions about a future dom\u00adi\u00adnat\u00aded by their suc\u00adces\u00adsors.\u201d<ul><li>Relat\u00aded: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/getreligion\/2021\/9\/15\/did-a-religious-search-help-shape-norm-macdonalds-haunting-humor\">Did a reli\u00adgious search help shape Norm Mac\u00addon\u00adald\u2019s haunt\u00ading humor?<\/a> (Ter\u00adry Mat\u00adting\u00adly, GetRe\u00adli\u00adgion): \u201cMac\u00addon\u00adald was also a self-iden\u00adti\u00adfied Chris\u00adt\u00adian, yet he made it clear that he didn\u2019t con\u00adsid\u00ader him\u00adself a very good one.\u201d There are sev\u00ader\u00adal excel\u00adlent YouTube clips in this one. Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2021\/09\/dan-darling-national-religious-broadcasters-evangelicals-vaccines\/619988\/\">Fired After Get\u00adting Vaccinated\u2014And Encour\u00adag\u00ading Oth\u00aders to Do So<\/a> (Emma Green, The Atlantic): \u201cI was try\u00ading to use my plat\u00adform to share the truth. You\u2019re right that Chris\u00adtians should be peo\u00adple of the truth\u2014not just that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life, but also the truth about what is real. The ques\u00adtion is: How do you get the truth to peo\u00adple? We live in a time where infor\u00adma\u00adtion is com\u00ading at us from all over. It\u2019s not nec\u00ades\u00adsar\u00adi\u00adly that peo\u00adple don\u2019t want to believe the truth.\u201d This is a sol\u00adid inter\u00adview. Dar\u00adling comes off very well.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.argmin.net\/2021\/09\/13\/effect-size\/\">Effect size is sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant\u00adly more impor\u00adtant than sta\u00adtis\u00adti\u00adcal sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcance.<\/a> (Ben Recht, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cIn either case we are talk\u00ading about a dif\u00adfer\u00adence of 15 cas\u00ades between the treat\u00adment and con\u00adtrol vil\u00adlages in a pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion of 32,000 indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adals.\u2026 If the effect size is so small that we need sophis\u00adti\u00adcat\u00aded sta\u00adtis\u00adtics, maybe that means the effect isn\u2019t real. Using sophis\u00adti\u00adcat\u00aded sta\u00adtis\u00adti\u00adcal scaf\u00adfold\u00ading clouds our judge\u00adment. We end up using sta\u00adtis\u00adti\u00adcal meth\u00adods as a crutch, not to dig sig\u00adnals out of noise, but to con\u00advince our\u00adselves of sig\u00adnals when there are none.\u201d The author is a pro\u00adfes\u00adsor of machine learn\u00ading and data analy\u00adsis at Berke\u00adley.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/religion\/2021\/09\/03\/black-church-future-education\/\">Why Amer\u00adi\u00adca needs the Black church for its own sur\u00advival<\/a> (Char\u00adlie Date, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cThe dif\u00adfer\u00adence between the Black church and any oth\u00ader Chris\u00adt\u00adian insti\u00adtu\u00adtion in Amer\u00adi\u00adca is that rather than aban\u00addon\u00ading Scrip\u00adture as a tool of our oppres\u00adsion, we apply Scrip\u00adture as God\u2019s rule for our lib\u00ader\u00adty and liv\u00ading. The dif\u00adfer\u00adence is in how our social eth\u00adic is root\u00aded in both right\u00adeous\u00adness and jus\u00adtice, not either right\u00adeous\u00adness or jus\u00adtice. The dif\u00adfer\u00adence is that we\u2019ve come to see Jesus and his pow\u00ader to sus\u00adtain and flour\u00adish us from the mar\u00adgins with\u00adout the ben\u00ade\u00adfit of large donors, polit\u00adi\u00adcal cap\u00adi\u00adtal or own\u00ader\u00adship of media out\u00adlets.\u201d The author is pas\u00adtor of a promi\u00adnent Black church in Chica\u00adgo as well as a sem\u00adi\u00adnary pro\u00adfes\u00adsor.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/article\/2021\/10\/roe-will-go\">Roe Will Go<\/a> (Robert P. George, First Things): \u201cLet me offer a pre\u00addic\u00adtion, free of any face-sav\u00ading hedge: Next year, the Supreme Court will hold that there is no con\u00adsti\u00adtu\u00adtion\u00adal right to elec\u00adtive abor\u00adtions.&nbsp;In <em>Dobbs v. Jack\u00adson Women\u2019s Health Orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion<\/em>, a case pend\u00ading before the court, it will return the issue to the states for the first time in forty-nine years.&nbsp;It will do so explic\u00adit\u00adly, call\u00ading out by name, and revers\u00ading in full, the two major cas\u00ades that con\u00adfect\u00aded and then entrenched a con\u00adsti\u00adtu\u00adtion\u00adal right to elec\u00adtive abor\u00adtion:&nbsp;<em>Roe v. Wade&nbsp;<\/em>(1973) and&nbsp;<em>Planned Par\u00adent\u00adhood v. Casey<\/em>&nbsp;(1992).&nbsp;And the vote will be six to three.\u201d The author is a law pro\u00adfes\u00adsor at Prince\u00adton.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Less Serious Things Which Also Interested\/Amused Glen<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"simple-list wp-block-list\"><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2021\/09\/14\">Health Insur\u00adance<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thefarside.com\/2021\/09\/15\/4\">Nature\u2019s Sub\u00adtle Signs Of Dan\u00adger<\/a> (Far Side)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting A While Ago<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every week I\u2019ll high\u00adlight an old\u00ader link still worth your con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion. This week we have <a href=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2018\/05\/one-parameter-equation-can-exactly-fit-scatter-plot.html\">A One Para\u00adme\u00adter Equa\u00adtion That Can Exact\u00adly Fit Any Scat\u00adter Plot<\/a> (Alex Tabar\u00adrok, Mar\u00adgin\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion): \u201cOver\u00adfit\u00adting is pos\u00adsi\u00adble with just one para\u00adme\u00adter and so mod\u00adels with few\u00ader para\u00adme\u00adters are not nec\u00ades\u00adsar\u00adi\u00adly prefer\u00adable even if they fit the data as well or bet\u00adter than mod\u00adels with more para\u00adme\u00adters.\u201d Researchers take note. The under\u00adly\u00ading math\u00ade\u00admat\u00adics paper is well-written and inter\u00adest\u00ading: <a href=\"http:\/\/colala.berkeley.edu\/papers\/piantadosi2018one.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/colala.berkeley.edu\/papers\/piantadosi2018one.pdf\">One Para\u00adme\u00adter Is Always Enough (Steven T. Pianta\u00addosi<\/a>) \u2014 among oth\u00ader things, it points out that you can smug\u00adgle in arbi\u00adtrar\u00adi\u00adly large amounts of data into an equa\u00adtion through a sin\u00adgle para\u00adme\u00adter because a num\u00adber can have infi\u00adnite dig\u00adits. Obvi\u00adous once stat\u00aded, but I don\u2019t know that it ever would have occurred to me. First shared in <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/06\/01\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-154\">vol\u00adume 154<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chi Alpha is not a par\u00adti\u00adsan orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion. To para\u00adphrase anoth\u00ader min\u00adis\u00adter: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agen\u00adda and we are not about the elephant\u2019s agen\u00adda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agen\u00adda. Hav\u00ading said that, I read wide\u00adly (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">the ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal Tur\u00ading test<\/a> and in part because I do not believe I can fair\u00adly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI dis\u00adagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI under\u00adstand\u201d) and may at times share arti\u00adcles that have a strong par\u00adti\u00adsan bias sim\u00adply because I find the arti\u00adcle stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with every\u00adthing an author says in an arti\u00adcle I men\u00adtion, much less things the author has said in oth\u00ader arti\u00adcles (although if I strong\u00adly dis\u00adagree with some\u00adthing in the arti\u00adcle I\u2019ll usu\u00adal\u00adly men\u00adtion it). And to the extent you can dis\u00adcern my opin\u00adions, please under\u00adstand that they are my own and not nec\u00ades\u00adsar\u00adi\u00adly those of Chi Alpha or any oth\u00ader orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion I may be per\u00adceived to rep\u00adre\u00adsent.\n\nAlso, remem\u00adber that I\u2019m not report\u00ading news \u2014 I\u2019m giv\u00ading you a selec\u00adtion of things I found inter\u00adest\u00ading. There\u2019s a lot hap\u00adpen\u00ading in the world that\u2019s not mak\u00ading an appear\u00adance here because I haven\u2019t found stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading arti\u00adcles writ\u00adten about it.\n\nIf this was for\u00adward\u00aded to you and you want to receive future emails, sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/\">here<\/a>. You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links\">view the archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, a word to new stu\u00addents: wel\u00adcome! This might be your first email from Chi Alpha and if so you might be a lit\u00adtle con\u00adfused. For the last sev\u00ader\u00adal years, I have been shar\u00ading articles\/resources every Fri\u00adday about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. I was inspired by the tribe of Issachar from the time \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2021\/09\/17\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-318\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 318\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"I have a slightly (very slightly) shorter list this week. 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