The Misplaced "Save lives at all costs"

There may be a danger of fearful emotion-based actions claiming to be motivated by fact and science infringing upon the rights of the individuals who may disagree or choose not to act justified by the sentiment that lives must be saved at all costs which is an alien and destructive…

Global Climate Change Crisis

A message from the Ministry of Truth regarding the GCCC According to the Ministry of Plenty's scientific statistics, our nation, nay, our world is facing a Global Climate Change Crisis unprecedented in its nature or extent.  According to the GAIA models it is predicted that the human race…

(Deep Learning)...Spaghetti anyone?

"Deep learning is the ultimate spaghetti code.  Your model will hunt down the worst tricks, find and exploit every edge case, proceed to make a mess of it, and then trick you into thinking it’s working." (Stephen Merity, Single Headed Attention RNN: Stop Thinking With Your Head,…

Science of Our Current Era

"Science, since people must do it, is a socially embedded activity. It progresses by hunch, vision, and intuition. Much of its change through time does not record a closer approach to absolute truth, but the alteration of cultural contexts that influence it so strongly. Facts are not pure and…