I received this thoughtful, and may I say highly accurate, email from reader EN, which I include in full below. I removed the age and name to protect EN’s identity. I also […]
Researcher In AI Responds To Criticisms
Judea Pearl Is Wrong On AI Identifying Causality, But Right That AI Is Nothing But Curve Fitting
Yep I’ve disagreed with Judea Pearl before on causality, and I do so again below; but first some areas of agreement. Some deep agreement at that. Pearl has a new book out […]
Machines Can’t Learn (Universals): The Abacus As Brain Part II
Read Our Intellects Are Not Computers: The Abacus As Brain Part I first. Machines can learn, all right. But they can’t learn like us. Machines cannot apprehend universals, ideas of truth and […]
Every Result Of Unsupervised Learning Is Correct; Or, All Learning Is Supervised
The real point I wish to make is that there is no such thing as unsupervised learning; or, stated another way, Truth exists; or, stated another way, every solution to an unsupervised […]
The Great Day Is Here! Uncertainty Meets The World
The Great Day—the Day yearned for by all humanity, or at least weakly anticipated by you, Dear Reader—has arrived! Let the trumpet sound and celebration begin! The release of Uncertainty: The Soul […]
Vatican Analyzes The Difference Between Humans And Robots
Soon a robot will ask you if you want fries with that. Computer screens already do, in some locales. How does that make you feel? Hungry? That could be taken more than […]
Falsifiability Is Not That Useful
False is not True We spoke earlier of falsification and why I didn’t think it was an especially useful criterion. My tweets about it inspired Deborah Mayo, who advocates for the new […]
Uncertainty (#1 New Release in Statistics) Book Page — Here Are The Details. Update!
This isn’t the book page. This is. Or you can buy it here. The page is permanently located at the menu bar at the top of the page, at the far left. […]
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