These are my links for April 12th through April 22nd: Gilbert Harman, Sanjeev Kulkarni – Reliable Reasoning: Induction and Statistical Learning Theory – Reviewed by Kevin Kelly, and Conor Mayo-Wilson, Carnegie Mellon University – Philosophical Reviews – University of Notre Dame – Harman and Kulkarni’s Reliable Reasoning is a welcome attempt to relate machine learning to the philosophy of induction at an introductory level suitable for undergraduates or for professional philosophers and scientists who desire a painless introduction to the subject. In clear, helpful figures and engagingly informal prose, the slender volume summarizes the main results and concepts of statistical […]
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These are my links for March 23rd through April 12th: Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics – These pages attempt to show the first uses of various words used in mathematics. Research for these pages is ongoing, and a citation should not be assumed to be the earliest use unless it is indicated as such. The Illustrated Road to Serfdom – by Friedrich A. Hayek cp42252001.pdf (application/pdf Object) – This article discusses the concept of information and its intimate relationship with physics. After an introduction of all the necessary quantum mechanical and information theoretical concepts we […]
This is a great summary of the history and economic rationale of spam (click for embiggening):
Rosemary Kirstein‘s THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT FACEBOOK: I Your farm does not exist. You puzzle me. II I was of three minds, Facebook, Twitter, and blog. But it was only one post, Like a blackbird Sitting in three trees at once. III Sixth grade lunch hour Cafeteria. Decibel level = 110. All my friends are talking at once, But not to me. (Continued) If you have not read Wallace Stevens, this will make the poem a bit clearer.
The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves. Ada Lovelace, Notes on Menabrae’s Memoir on the Analytic Engine Cheers to Ada Lovelace, the original computer programmer!