The Decline of the Power of Statistics — Variables, Weekly.
Hello people,
Welcome to this week’s edition of Variables, Weekly.
In recent times, the media has been pushing the narrative that we now live in a ‘post-truth’ or ‘post-factual’ world. I don’t think any idea has irritated me more in the past year. I’ve read a lot of literature concerning the subject and have also been thinking about the implications. Science and statistics have come under attack, experts are no longer to be trusted. The prevailing sentiment is these experts use numbers and arcane jargon to manipulate ordinary people like you and I.
I’ll just leave you here with the first article I have lined up today.
Enjoy!
How statistics lost their power — and why we should fear what comes next — Link
What next after we reach the limits of Moore’s law ~ Vanishing point: the rise of the invisible computer — Link
State Of The Music: Nigerian artistes who ‘copy’ music from others are sitting on a time bomb — Link
Tech Leaders Are Just Now Getting Serious About the Threats of AI — Link
Can science prove the existence of God? — Link
Speed Reading is Bullshit — Link
On our complicated relationship with the media ~ You’re not distracted. You’re entertained — Link
How Camus and Sartre split up over the question of how to be free — Link
Here, an interesting excerpt from the article:
‘Absolute freedom is the right of the strongest to dominate,’ Camus wrote, while ‘absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction: therefore it destroys freedom.’
Human-Pig Hybrid Created in the Lab — Here Are the Facts — Link
What does it take top become a good programmer? — Link
Is evolution just one result of an interaction between information theory and thermodynamics, I’m going to let you be the judge of that ~ How Life (and Death) Spring From Disorder — Link
Technology: Will robots end capitalism? — Link
How to Listen to Authoritarians (Without Losing Your Mind) — Link
What’s the future of interaction? — Link
Nobody knows where a black hole’s information goes — Link
Have We Become Ideologues? — Link
Is the concept of will-power a myth? ~ Against Willpower — Link
Why You Didn’t See It Coming — Link
That’s all I have for you today. See you next week.
