That AAAI felt compelled to put an upper bound on the number of papers (ten!) from an author should tell you something about the state of AI publishing today.

Folks, you know what's not going to fix medicine? More esoteric Bayesian statistics.

People complain about the humanities, but the cottage industry of writing phrenological observational studies about p-values is one of the more bizarre corners of academia.

I dug into how we came to view rationality as optimal gambling. Part stems from an aggressively narrow reading of a landmark paper by Ramsey who proposed a much richer program. argmin.net/p/the-birth-of…

Today's AI Winter blog is about Jaynes’ thinking robot and what it says about our modern conceptions of scientific rationality. argmin.net/p/the-robot-of…

While everyone else is schmoozing at the AI Winter Conference, I'm blogging about the philosophy of engineering, I guess.
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