
Experts creating the coronadoom may or may not have designed it as a weapon. They did, however, design it to kill. Maybe it got out accidentally—stupidity is always a likely explanation—or maybe […]
Experts creating the coronadoom may or may not have designed it as a weapon. They did, however, design it to kill. Maybe it got out accidentally—stupidity is always a likely explanation—or maybe […]
We return to reviewing Sabine Hossenfelder’s, a.k.a. Old Hoss’s, new book Existential Physics. First part (many worlds), second part (entropy). If you knew all there is to know about hydrogen alone, and […]
After months of rigorous investigation, and employing the most sophisticated computerized machine learning AI systems, a fundamental component, a key facet, an integral essential fact, a fact heretofore unnoticed, about the woke […]
I first describe a bug at the blog, a blog bug, and then show us a few emails we missed. WordPress Bug & Emails I was cleaning up the blog on a […]
Ezra Klein, lead explainer over at Vox, needs to have direction of cause explained to him. He tweeted “leading AI models for processing hate speech were one-and-a-half times more likely to flag […]
Here’s a tweet (addressed to Judea Pearl), “If you could get rid of all the spurious non causal correlations in a machine-learning model, you would be left with only the invariant ones […]
Here’s the headline: “AI can predict when someone will die with unsettling accuracy: This isn’t the first time experts have harnessed AI’s predictive power for healthcare.” Unsettling accuracy? Is accuracy unsettling? Has […]
There’s a terrific book, well worth scoring a copy, by M. Lamar Keene called The Psychic Mafia. Keene tells the tale of Camp Chesterfield, a sort of outlet shopping mall of psychics, […]
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