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Impenetrable Drafts — C. J. TAPE
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March 17, 2013. A professor of mine. Once taught a class. On a Tuesday, only to read a paper the next day that invalidated what he had taught. So he went into class on Thursday and told the class, Remember what I told you on Tuesday? It’s wrong. And if that worries you, you need to get out of science.". Science is always in this draft form. To draw contrast with an alternative philosophy, consider the following diagram:. If science continues its perpetual cycle of mass data collection and deeper modellin...
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El Gentraso: People Will Talk in the NY Post
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Monday, November 14, 2011. People Will Talk in the NY Post. Yesterday's New York Post has an article. Extracted/adapted from People Will Talk. In particular, I refer you to these two pdfs:. Closure and Stability: Persistent Reputation and Enduring Relations among Bankers and Analysts. And his 2005 book Brokerage and Closure. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Surprising Science of Reputation. My new book: People Will Talk: The Surprising Science of Reputation. Was published in autumn 2006. Review: T...
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El Gentraso: July 2011
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Thursday, July 14, 2011. In this week's Science about how people outsourcie their memories to Google made me think of a piece I wrote for the FT weekend magazine some years back looking at the same idea - that mental skills fall out of use just as material technologies do. That was occasioned by the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Scottish mathematician Edward Sang. Who, working with his daughters,. In Historia Mathematica.). Logarithms turn complex multiplication into simple addition. For exam...
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IdeaFestival: Can reality fall out of date?
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Subscribe to IdeaFestival by Email. More in IdeaFestival 2009 pool. Philosophy is useless - again. Truths we do not know. Malcolm Gladwell: Just How Dishonest is Harvard? On the Edge: Game-changing discoveries in our lifetime. What will change everything? Quantum entanglement exceeds speed (of light) limit. Star Stryder - by Pamela L. Gay. My heart’s in Accra. Core77.com / design magazine resource. Philosophy Talk: The Blog. The Long Now Foundation. Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog. We live in a time tha...
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mcshanahan | Boundary Vision
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Observations of the spaces in between science, society, education and policy. A blog around the clock. Not exactly rocket science. Skulls in the Stars. The Finch and Pea. Through the looking glass. All posts by mcshanahan. Herzberg medal coverage follow up. On February 18, I wrote about two pieces of national coverage. Reported that fact briefly but focused solely on her award-winning research. The other ( written by Ivan Semeniuk for the Globe and Mail. Identified in scientist profiles in the New York T...
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Science Communication | Boundary Vision
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Observations of the spaces in between science, society, education and policy. A blog around the clock. Not exactly rocket science. Skulls in the Stars. The Finch and Pea. Through the looking glass. All posts in category Science Communication. The Seven Wonderers of Beakerhead: Telling stories about science. The Seven Wonderers of Beakerhead (Photo courtesy of Raj Bhardwaj @RajBhardwajMD, used with permission). It wasn’t a typical opening line for a science talk. (more…). September 24, 2015. They argue th...
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“The power to predict your world”: interviewing Samuel Arbesman and Mark Daley | Boundary Vision
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Observations of the spaces in between science, society, education and policy. A blog around the clock. Not exactly rocket science. Skulls in the Stars. The Finch and Pea. Through the looking glass. 8220;The power to predict your world”: interviewing Samuel Arbesman and Mark Daley. Here’s a new one for the coincidences-leading-to-cool-ideas file: Who would have guessed that stacking up old journals in someone’s office could inspire a new field of research! For my latest Skeptically Speaking. So why do an ...
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Scott Jackisch's Weblog | Cognitive science, futurism, and the Bay Area IdeaSpace | Page 2
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Scott Jackisch's Weblog. Cognitive science, futurism, and the Bay Area IdeaSpace. How unlikely is safe AI? Questioning the doomsday scenarios. November 1, 2012. I have always been dubious of the assumption that unfriendly AI is the most likely outcome for our future. The Singularity Institute. Refers skeptics like myself to Eliezer Yudkowsky’s paper: Complex Value Systems are Required to Realize Valuable Futures. In H magazine. H seems to have several articles that take exception. And this entire premise...
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El Gentraso: Eric B and Rakim explain social learning
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Monday, November 07, 2011. Eric B and Rakim explain social learning. OK, People Will Talk. Is creeping onto the shelves (and whatever the electronic equivalent. Of a shelf is) and we can begin the task of examining the book's themes through the medium of golden-age hiphop. What a fantastic record. Video hasn't aged so well, though, has it? Where to nest (many birds. And who to mate with ( guppies. If everyone copies everyone else blindly without ever looking at the raw data on which decisions are based&#...
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