From Scientists to Salesmen – A Review of Noah Hutton’s In Silico.
Pervasive corporate managerialism has made it such that the number and prestige of publications in prestigious for-profit journals has become the key metric of one’s value, and the cri…
Society wasn’t ready for us
The Story of Native American Metal Band Winterhawk. “The way we would get in the door at these boarding schools—and it would take some time for the faculty to grasp the idea—was [that] we used the tool of music, mainly heavy metal, because at the time,…
The Real Black Box Was the Friends We Made Along the Way
A New Link to an Old Model Could Crack the Mystery of Deep Learning. But a number of researchers are showing that idealized versions of these powerful networks are mathematically equivalent to older, simpler machine learning models called kernel machin…