New post on evaluating forecasting mechanisms prior to event realization: open.substack.com/pub/rajivset...

A Forecasting Competition

We have just six weeks to go before election day.

www.publicbooks.org/the-diet-sod...

The “Diet Soda” of Data

Synthetic data promises to fix racial bias in algorithms used in AI. But its promise is false.

Never thought I would be a podcast host, but... I'm co-hosting this season's Complexity Podcast from @sfiscience.bsky.socialcomplexity.simplecast.com/episodes/tra...

Facebook Prophet: library for generating forecasts from any time series data (github.com) Main LinkHN Post

Some of the unanswered questions at the heart of fundamental physics might be answered by testing if forces we think of as constant are, in fact, varying. An atom found in Cold War radioactive waste provides an avenue for testing this constancy. www.quantamagazine.org/the-first-nu...

The First Nuclear Clock Will Test if Fundamental Constants Change | Quanta Magazine

An ultra-precise measurement of a transition in the hearts of thorium atoms gives physicists a tool to probe the forces that bind the universe.

“Sometimes in the tech industry, when people talk about how we should set up this or that thing with AI, some may say, ‘Well, let’s just get AI to do the right thing.’ And that leads to, ‘Well, what is the right thing?’” And determining moral choices is a philosophical exercise. #AI#ML#philosophy

Stephen Wolfram thinks we need philosophers working on big questions around AI | TechCrunch

As AI developers and others start to think more deeply about how computers and people intersect, Stephan Wolfram says it is becoming a much more of a philosophical exercise

New blog post: How to make colorful contour maps: www.letsmakeamap.com/blog/lets-ma...#maps#QGIS#design

Let’s make contour maps — Let's make a map

How to make colorful contour maps with nothing but elevation data. Covering the whole process from finding data to designing the map in QGIS and publishing it.

We are glad that we have never used Anaconda in our Python for Data Science stack: www.theregister.com/2024/08/08/a...

Anaconda puts the squeeze on data scientists

Academic, non-profit organizations told to start paying up – or else

... índice verde "arbolitos" #EDOMEX#MachineLearning