Have you ever cringed at the cavalier way your students cite Wikipedia? Wait until they start citing Conservapedia. Conservapedia is an online encyclopedia modeled after Wikipedia, but ostensibly aimed at promoting a “conservative” point of view. Unfortunately for scientifically literate conservatives, what these people seem to mean by promoting “conservatism” …
Using genetic engineering, photosensitive proteins, and light. In today’s NYTimes.
A couple of weeks ago I went to this year’s TSC in Budapest. While I didn’t enjoy it as much as I did last time in Copenhagen (though Budapest, even during a heat wave, was quite enjoyable), I liked some of the talks, as in the discussion, you can hear …
My paper “Computing Mechanisms”, which articulates and defends an account of what it takes for physical systems to perform computations (in the sense of computability theory and computer science), has been accepted in Philosophy of Science. I will go over it and revise it one more time before sending the …
For your information:Workshop Announcement – Call for ParticipationMathematical Models of Cognitive BehaviourAvon Gorge Hotel, BristolNovember 9th, 2007 (9am – 5pm)https://patterns.enm.bris.ac.uk/cognitive-systems-workshopWorkshop of the Pascal Network of Excellence and the euCognition NetworkProbabilistic approaches to Artificial Intelligence have becomemainstream in the past decade. Statistical methods are routinely usedin machine learning, machine translation, machine …
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Hi,I just found out that the students of cogsci (here in Helsinki) are arguing passionately (greetings to Ilmari + guys) about this story: https://www.sciencenetlinks.com/sci_update.cfm?DocID=166So, does the size of brains matter/correlate with the IQ… This may be a complicated question, and I was just thinking what the situation with the current comparative study is right now. …
