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The Astrophysicists Who Faked It
Credit : LIGO/Axel Mellinger In science, the question of when to believe is a deep and ancient problem. There is no universal answer, and evaluating the merits of any potential discovery always...
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The Voice in Your Head
Given that thoughts are a jumble of fragments and pieces, it occurred to me that a recorded transcript of those jumbled pieces actually might not be very illuminating. It might not even be...
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Why You Can’t Help But Act Your Age
Most of us are slaves to our chronological age, behaving, as the saying goes, age-appropriately. For example, young people often take steps to recover from a minor injury, whereas someone in their 80s...
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The Great A.I. Awakening
Illustration by Pablo Delcan And yet the rise of machine learning makes it more difficult for us to carve out a special place for us. If you believe, with Searle, that there is something special about...
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A Bigger Problem Than ISIS ?
In the language of hydraulic engineering, the process eroding the foundation is known as “solutioning.” If that problem is not addressed, what happens next is “piping”: water begins to travel between...
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The Twin Prime Hero
Yitang “Tom” Zhang spent the seven years following the completion of his Ph.D. in mathematics floating between Kentucky and Queens, working for a chain of Subway restaurants, and doing odd accounting...
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Is Artificial Intelligence Permanently Inscrutable?
The result is that modern machine learning offers a choice among oracles: Would we like to know what will happen with high accuracy, or why something will happen, at the expense of accuracy? The “why”...
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The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI
Credit : Adam Ferriss As the technology advances, we might soon cross some threshold beyond which using AI requires a leap of faith. Sure, we humans can’t always truly explain our thought processes...
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To Become a Better Investor, Think Like Darwin
On financial innovations — read derivatives and securitizations — and the need for more collaboration : People respond to incentives, and so if we want to take on much bigger challenges, we need to...
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Is Consciousness Fractal?
Jackson Pollock This intersection between our experience and fractals may run even deeper than Taylor’s evolutionary hypothesis. “Any act of creativity is an act of physiology,” Goldberger says. “The...
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