See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. We are all of […]
Stream: Will 2016 Be the Year We Approach The Great and Terrible Singularity?
Will super-intelligent computers soon spell our doom, or have futurists forgotten something fundamental? Hint: it’s the latter. Go to the Stream to read the rest. The chilling news is that killer robots […]
Question Of The Week: Will Religions Try to Convert Superintelligent AI? No
The ever hopeful transhumanist-but-still-human Zoltan Istvan is back asking “When Superintelligent AI Arrives, Will Religions Try to Convert It?” The answer is a qualified no. The qualification? There won’t be any such […]
Is God is a Mathematician? Guest Post by Bob Kurland
Coincidentally, Bob Kurland sent this guest post on the day of miracles, a good follow up to yesterday’s post. Feynman: “Do you know calculus?” Wouk: I admitted that I didn’t. Feynman: “You […]
Catholic Climate Change Conference: Consensus Confusion. Updates
So the Vatican conference is off and running. I’m not there, and have no insider view, so that best that can be done is to point our telescopes that direction. See what […]
Uncertainty Is An Impossible Sell
I’ve never seen the show, but I’ve heard that the protagonist on the X Files used to have a desk sign which read, “I want to believe.” That sentiment characterizes most buyers […]
Machine Learning, Big Data, Deep Learning, Data Mining, Statistics, Decision & Risk Analysis, Probability, Fuzzy Logic FAQ
Last Updated 3 December 2012, 7:24 AM EST. What’s the difference between machine learning, deep learning, big data, statistics, decision & risk analysis, probability, fuzzy logic, and all the rest? None, except […]
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