Evidential discordance, or the situation where scientific evidence supports contrary hypotheses, claims or theories about a given phenomenon, is common in scientific inquiry (Franklin, 2002; Boyd, 201...

ciphergoth just asked what the actual value of Quantified Self/self-experimentation is. This finally tempted me into running value of information cal…

'Book of the Year' as chosen by The Conversation 'Disconcerting . . . a disturbing and important book' NEW SCIENTIST 'Smart and wonderfully readable' N...

MacGyver turns 40! To celebrate, we asked fans to share what they love most about the show. The outpouring of responses from all over the world was incredible — Here are 40 of our favorites…

In our first event of Autumn 2026, the Perspectives on Science Seminar will have a talk by Luis Mireles-Flores (TINT/Helsinki) titled “A Multi-Stage approach to the role of evidence in policy making: opening the black-box of the public policy process”.

Ajatus keinotekoisesta älykkäästä koneesta on aina kiehtonut ihmistä. Se on innoittanut paitsi tieteiskirjallisuutta myös filosofista ajattelua. Kertomusten ja teoreettisten pohdintojen kuvitelmista tekoälyjärjestelmät ovat siirtyneet konkreettiseksi osaksi arkeamme.Tekoäly, ihminen ja yhteiskunta tarjoaa monipuolisen

a companion piece to our ICLR 2026 Paper: Learning is Forgetting: LLM Training As Lossy Compression

They are moving too fast for the normal mind to keep up, but elite drivers have more densely packed brain cells where it counts and use their minds more efficiently.

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Scholars have long proposed third-party middleware as an alternative to centralized algorithmic feeds: feeds built and distributed by independent feed creators. This vision saw no large-scale instanti...

In this article, I develop an account of the use of intentional predicates in cognitive neuroscience explanations. As pointed out by Maxwell Bennett and Peter Hacker, intentional language abounds i...

Tuomo Suntolan kehittämä atomikerroskasvatus saattaa olla tärkein suomalainen keksintö. Hänen elämäntyönsä on silti oma universumin teoria. Fyysikoiden mielestä se on lähinnä humpuukia.

Yhteensä 12 maata vaatii kahden valtion mallin turvaamista.

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