Recursivity

Want to get your uninformed opinion about AI published in the most prestigious newspaper in the United States?

In the past I've commented on bad discussions of thinking, intelligence, brains, and computers, such as those by Gary N.

Whenever some new breakthrough in AI (artificial intelligence) is made, you can depend on ignorant naysayers to break out the usual clichés.

Well, it seems so soon, but the 7-year anniversary of Robert Marks's complete failure to provide any evidence for his claims about information is upon us.

The fake "science" of intelligent design claims to provide a reliable methodology for determining if something was "natural" or created through the intervention of an intelligent agent.

Six years ago, the illustrious Baylor professor Robert Marks II made the following claim: "we all agree that a picture of Mount Rushmore with the busts of four US Presidents contains more information than a picture of Mount Fuji".

I realize that most people have better things to do currently than read the ravings of a creationist neurosurgeon, but Michael Egnor is at it again, making completely unsubstantiated claims about the minds of people and animals.

Every so often, the Catholic Church goes through the bizarre process of elevating one of its adherents to the status of saint.

Five years ago, the illustrious Baylor professor Robert Marks II made the following claim: "we all agree that a picture of Mount Rushmore with the busts of four US Presidents contains more information than a picture of Mount Fuji".

I suppose it's not so remarkable that creationists can't do mathematics.

I will now tell you my Jerry Garcia story.

As academics age, some of them get cranky.

Michael Egnor, the man for which the term "egnorance" was coined, is at it again, sneering at experts while demonstrating he knows little about linguistics, philosophy, or ethology.

Here.

I wrote before about Inference, a weird "journal" that bills itself as an "International Review of Science", but has published some very questionable pieces by some very questionable people.

Canada and Norway are engaged in a Moose War.

...is a moose map.

"Here as he walked by [in Dublin] on the 16th of October 1843 Sir William Rowan Hamilton in a flash of genius discovered the fundamental formula for quaternion multiplication i2 = j2 = k2 = ijk = -1 & cut it on a stone of this bridge."

For Moose Friday, from CBC New Brunswick, a video of two male moose battling it out.

You have to look really quickly, but the youtube channel numberphile briefly mentions our recent paper on sums of palindromes: Our paper appears onscreen at 3:30.

Karen Tumulty discovered a previously unpublished 1982 letter written by Ronald Reagan to his father-in-law, Loyal Davis, shortly before Davis's death.

When I read the latest dreck from the "Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence", all I could think was: I did warn you.

Once upon a time, the illustrious Baylor professor Robert Marks II made the following claim: "we all agree that a picture of Mount Rushmore with the busts of four US Presidents contains more information than a picture of Mount Fuji".

If there's one consistent aspect of creationism, it's that people lacking understanding and training are put forth as experts.

This American president's library contains many books on religion, but it also contains a copy of Darwin's Origin of Species.