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Tuesday, September 25, 2018

The fragmentation of knowledge

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Philosophers of yesteryear have argued that knowledge emanates from integration and not fragmentation. Even the early scientific discipline...
Saturday, September 22, 2018

Gut feel

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A recent finding (1) that shows that the gut uses a variety of communication channels to rapidly communicate with the brain has implication...
Tuesday, September 18, 2018

The value of time

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Humans, with apparently hard constraints on affordable time, appear to sub-optimize the shape of their objective functions in every conceiv...
Sunday, September 9, 2018

The game is rigged

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A recent study (1) shows that kinship and fellowship were held in equal regard in the households of medieval times and cultural appropriat...
Thursday, September 6, 2018

Time to wake up and face technology

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A recent article (1) that notes that advancing technology initiated productive scientific regimes, speculates that Artificial Intelligence...
Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Phoenix

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Senator McCain's decision to invite presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush to eulogize him gives us the last glimpses of civility i...
Sunday, August 26, 2018

Policy inefficiencies

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It has been shown that good intentions are not sufficient to make good policy decisions. Humans have generally been incompetent in making o...
Friday, August 24, 2018

The end of "Machine Learning."

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Machine learning, an obnoxious term, that simply means statistical modeling, has the potential to lead many budding data scientists and un...
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