#ScientificInquiry

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-04-23

✈️ Ah, the grand quest of discovering who first conjured the magical of "equal transit-time"! 🤓 Because clearly, tracing the of a theory is the pinnacle of scientific endeavors. 🧙‍♂️🔍
hsm.stackexchange.com/question

2025-04-07

@glyph
I hear you.

My favourite (perhaps less jarring?) example is when a court declares they have found someone guilty, and that their threshold of guilt is "on balance of odds".

I look at the lawyers and the witnesses and realise that none of them has studied actuarial or probability mathematics. I wouldn't even trust them to understand a bet on the horses. For a scientist to watch them is like observing a cargo cult. Worse, I am sure, is for a scientist to find themselves on the receiving end of such a court.

I would offer the meagre consolation that you can see the feedback loops that drive them to behave so, where they think themselves to have free will.

#cybernetics #actuarial #odds #maths #math #statistics #science #scientificInquiry #systemsArchitecture #justice #law #policing #cargoCult

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-03-24

🤖📈 Welcome to the world where thinking people are "cultists" and is now an official criterion in scientific inquiry. Apparently, if you're not being told to "kill yourself" by keyboard warriors, you're not questioning hard enough. 😅🔍
ewanmorrison.substack.com/p/th

2023-11-15

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2081: A Monstrosity and a Skeptic

Episode: 2081 A Monstrosity, a Skeptic, and a new view of the 16th century. Today, guest historian Cathy Patterson gives birth to a cat.

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#AgnesBowker #AnthonyAnderson #magic #monstrousBirths #scientificInquiry #sixteenthCenturyScience #Superstition

2023-01-07

@DrYohanJohn

#ScientificInquiry is the Immigration and Naturalization Service of All Kinds.

2022-12-23

#Definition and #Determination#SurveyPage
inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/09

In the early 1990s, “in the middle of life’s journey” as the saying goes, I returned to grad school in a #SystemsEngineering program with the idea of taking a more systems-theoretic approach to my development of Peircean themes, from #Signs and #ScientificInquiry to #Logic and #InformationTheory.

#AI #AdaptiveSystems #IntelligentSystems #InquiryDrivenSystems
#Peirce #Semiotics #Semeiotics #SignRelations #LogicOfScience

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