Month: September 2021

Agency on Trial

A friend recently shared The Brain on Trial, an article by David Eagleman, and I found it to raise some interesting questions in the domains of criminal sentencing and agency. Eagleman also wades into the realm of “free will”, but the treatment seems to be only surface-level (at least from a philosophical standpoint) and not …

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Exploring the Limits of Intelligence

One important concept in data science is that of signal. Signal represents the ability of data to inform accurate predictions in the target domain; a dataset that can tell you more has more signal. For example, say you’re trying to predict the weather in New York for the next day (repeatedly). For the sake of …

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