Ideas and Implications In his 1990 talk “The Myth of the Standpoint” Karl Popper said: …the correct method of critical discussion is: What are the…
In this post, I continue to follow chapter by chapter from Category Theory for Programmers By Bartosz Milewski, this time looking at Chapter 3: Categories…
Upfront apologies for this post. It’s a bit messy. That’s because I’m exploring ideas that I’m confused about and I’m seeking other’s thoughts to clarify…
I came across this quote and thought people might enjoy it’s relationship to the recently much discussed “fun criteria.” Thus the pure theoretician… will choose…
Is the study of Artificial General Intelligence identical to the study of consciousness? The word “consciousness” is bantered about as if it’s a specific thing.…
This is a historical post. In my last post, I mentioned that I subscribe to Karl Popper’s ideas about “The Myth of the Framework.” So…
In past posts, I’ve been building my argument around why Word Essentialism is always a rational mistake under Popperian epistemology. Popper himself explained this. I…
This is a historical post. In this post I was struggling to make sense of Popper. Agellius (a devout Catholic friend of mine) once asked…
In my historical posts, I compared the epistemology of Kuhn and Popper and pointed out that they actually agree on a lot more than people…
“Reinforcement Learning with Augmented Data,” (link) by Michael Laskin, et al introduces the idea of using data augmentation in Reinforcement Learning. Data augmentation is already…