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Month: December 2012

Method in Acting and Science: Why there is no such thing

Growing up in China, with the state television often showing boring programs, I was hooked to our cherished VCR and … More

Al Pacino, Chomsky, Deniro, Dennis Hopper, Marlon Brando, Method Acting, The Scientific Method

On Bertie Russell and Johnny Keynes, and the Two Meta Models of Politics

People can differ a lot on their politics. Some people want free markets, others want government intervention; some want free … More

Bertrand Russell, israel, John Keynes, Meta Models, palestine, Politics

Big Data or Pig Data?

(A fable on huge amounts of data and why we don’t need models)  There was a pig who wanted to … More

Big data, Correlations, Frictionless plane, Galileo, Models, Peter Norvig, Pig data, Probability, Statistics

Galileo and Economics

Or ‘Why we can’t blame Galileo for the latest financial crisis!’ 🙂 Modern science can be roughly said to begin … More

abstractions, Economics, efficient market hypothesis, Galilean Style, Galileo, idealizations, rational choice theory, rational expectations

Postmodernism: The Opium of the Intellectuals

What follows is a post-modernist defense of Agha Waqar Ahmad’s water-car. The postmodernist author is Derridalacanlatour, a famous French intellectual … More

derrida, edinburgh, intellectuals, lacan, latour, opium, paris, postmodernism

Fiction as Simulation

Studies by neuroscientists have shown that while reading fiction, our brains simulate the action narrated in the text. The information … More

Fiction, Galileo, Simulation

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