All Posts

Let’s face it. We could all stand to be a little more agnostic In 2008, a 30-year-old math whiz named Nate Silver was flexing his reputation as a next generation baseball analyst, using his Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm to predict the career arc of MLB players. As Silver explained PECOTA to a reporter that summer, Oakland A’s rookie infielder Daric Barton had a 44 percent chance of enjoying a breakout season, while at the same time had an 8 perce

One of these songs is the coolest song ever written. It's time to choose.

Scientists are supposed to be smarter than us. True fact. Research can be a counter-intuitive thing. Universities conduct a lot of research with for-profit underwriting, but much of the really expensive and rewarding research involves large government investments from agencies like the DOD, DOE, NASA, or NIH. What rarely gets acknowledged is that the federal government is providing a research infrastructure that no private company could afford on its own. The win/win scenar

They wanted to make a splash at a San Francisco Ai convention. They also weren't kidding. As a kid in the 1960s, we got sold a lot of future. In fairness, the future was moving incredibly fast back then and speculation was irresistible. If we could send men to the moon in less than 10 years, what else was going to happen in our lifetimes? Then things slowed down pretty quick. The future didn't have the whimsy of the Jetsons or the dystopia of Soylent Green, and with the notab