Note – this was originally published with Physics World. Around 359 million years ago, at the boundary between the Devonian and Carboniferous periods, the biosphere…
“Language Models are Few-Shot Learners” by Brown, et al (link) was the world’s introduction to Open AI’s GPT-3, the state of the art language model…
Note — this was originally published with Areo magazine and can be found here. Historically, the creation of ideas has been a messy process. Knowledge has not usually…
This is a historical post Well, we’ve covered a lot of ground in past posts. The problem with this ‘Reason as a Guide to Reality’…
Many of you know that I’m working on a Master’s Degree in Computer Science through Georgia Tech. I have to work to take care of…
This is a historical post In my last post, I quoted Stephen Hawking’s defense of Positivism / Anti-Realism. He even goes so far as to suggest…
Disney’s purchase of Star Wars is a prime example of objective beauty. While the recent movies not bad big budget popcorn movies, they fall far…
The Human Body is a Guess Copyright 2020 by Charlie Munford We do not understand the physics controlling biological systems. If we did, we could…
Note–this was originally published with Areo Magazine. It seems that as soon as our ancestors could afford to do so, they forged a spiritual dimension…
This is a historical post In my last post I finished comparing Popper and Kuhn and again concluded that there really isn’t much difference between the…