This is a historical post. Note: Perhaps many of you will be disturbed by my argument here that Kuhn and Popper aren’t so far apart…
Author: Bruce Nielson
While studying for school, I came across these two lectures: here and here. These lectures talk about “evidence-based medicine” which it defines as identical to…
This is a historical post. In this older post (before The Beginning of Infinity was even published) I actually champion Taleb’s idea that we do…
In my last post on Category Theory, I summarized the main ideas from Chapter 1 of Category Theory for Programmers by Bartosz Milewski. In this…
This is a historical post. In my last post I argued that, contrary to popular belief, science is not actually about observation. Here I wish to…
I’ve been writing posts on Popper’s theory of word nominalism vs word essentialism and I recently came across Donald Campbell’s attempt to summarize Popper’s theory…
This is a historical post. I was not aware of Duhem Quine when I wrote this. The Beginning of Infinity had not even been published,…
Weight Agnostic Neural Networks, by Adam Gaier and David Ha, was hailed as a seminal finding in Deep Learning that showed that the architecture of…
This is a historical post. The idea of “algorithmic reducibility” seemed “obvious” to me at the time. I’m not really sure anymore. Is that really…
In this post, I am going to consider a Voluntarist account of the founding of the United States of America. Of interest is that Logan’s…