Simple Minds See Black & White, Complex Minds See Grey
Perhaps I’m the first one, or maybe not. Last month I started an experiment in publishing a series of..
12 AprilTag: prediction
Probability Distribution of a Soloist
Would it be possible to make a statistical model of a jazz solo and use it to create new ones? Take a..
8 February
Recommending Music on Spotify with Deep Learning
Spotify is a neat place to work at. They are very much open about their methods and they publish their..
6 January
On Turbulence and The World’s Jaggedness
Turbulence provides a perfect example of why a problem is not solved simply by writing down a mathematical equation to predict it.
3 August
How I Think Or How To Think Critically
The superior mind will find itself equally at odds with the evils of society, and with the projects that are offered to relieve them. I, as the wise skeptic, am a bad citizen; no conservative.
14 NovemberNo Such Thing as a Rational Belief
‘If we believe that fire warms, or water refreshes, ’tis only because it costs us too much pains to think otherwise.’
A Hit Prediction Idea
I’ve got a hit prediction idea. What if we were to statistically represent the redundancy pattern of a song? Determine how uncertainty during the song’s course plays a role in its popularity.
3 JuneNothing Predictable can be Harmful and Nothing Harmful can be Predictable
Corporations and financial institutions have recently created a strange position called Risk Managers, someone who is supposed to monitor the institution’s businesses and make sure that it is not too deeply involved in the business of playing Russ…
3 DecemberYou can’t Predict Shit
Some mathematical facts are true for no reason. They are accidental, lacking any cause or deeper meaning. This is an apparent attribute of any dynamical system which we try to model mathematically. And so are the facts of our chaotic environment w…
22 March