June 2011
The film’s portentous epigraph is the grandest...
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jul/14/variety-movie-experience/?pagination=false&printpage=true
Jun 30th
What are “thoughts,” and what are “things”? and...
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jul/14/variety-movie-experience/?pagination=false&printpage=true
Jun 30th
One need only shut oneself in a closet and begin...
Jun 30th
Situations in Natural Language Semantics
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/situations-semantics/ Situation semantics was developed as an alternative to possible worlds semantics. In situation semantics, linguistic expressions are evaluated with respect to partial, rather than complete, worlds. There is no consensus about what situations are, just as there is no consensus about what possible worlds or events are. According to some,...
Jun 29th
A Tale of Two Moralities, By PAUL KRUGMAN
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/opinion/14krugman.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print
Jun 29th
On this shift in the political landscape, Paul...
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/06/29/does-america-need-ayn-rand-or-jesus/
Jun 29th
The Last Rose Of Summer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GweJ50cwXCA&feature=autoplay&list=AVGxdCwVVULXdHluC_1GpWyGbpADs1ngDo&index=6&playnext=2
Jun 29th
Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.156.4933&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Jun 29th
Key question: Over the past 50 years, research in...
http://mit150.mit.edu/symposia/brains-minds-machines a) that a new effort in curiosity-driven research is needed in order to understand intelligence and the brain b) that this new basic research endeavor should tightly combine computer science, cognitive science, neuroscience, and social sciences, and c) that it should also integrate different facets of intelligence such as vision, planning,...
Jun 29th
We also now know that language is like that as...
http://norvig.com/chomsky.html
Jun 29th
"The true logic for this world is the calculus of...
Jun 29th
We shouldn't accept a theoretical framework that...
http://norvig.com/chomsky.html
Jun 29th
The problem is that reality is messier than this...
http://norvig.com/chomsky.html
Jun 29th
But O'Reilly realizes that it doesn't matter what...
http://norvig.com/chomsky.html
Jun 29th
Breiman's article explains his objections to the...
http://norvig.com/chomsky.html
Jun 29th
It seems that the algorithmic modeling culture is...
http://norvig.com/chomsky.html
Jun 29th
Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures:
http://norvig.com/chomsky.html First the data modeling culture (to which, Breiman estimates, 98% of statisticians subscribe) holds that nature can be described as a black box that has a relatively simple underlying model which maps from input variables to output variables (with perhaps some random noise thrown in). It is the job of the statistician to wisely choose an underlying model that...
Jun 29th
"Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory...
Jun 29th
"Physics can progress without the proofs, but we...
Jun 29th
The intellectual offspring of Shannon's theory...
http://norvig.com/chomsky.html
Jun 29th