Being Human Series

[BH 6/n] Summer review, la rentrée est proche

Ad-libbed list of what I’ve done, still doing, and learnt over the summer.

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[BH 5/n] Argh... Just because we repeat Correlation does not imply Causation does not mean there isn't Causation!

This is a bit of a rant. I’ve memories of a senior manager shooting ideas down saying “correlation is not causation, I’ve done Stats at Uni and can prove anything is related to baked beans” It grated sooooo much. Firstly as it was thoughtless rhetoric, either purposefully or accidentally steam rolling ideas. Immediately dismissing any attempts at constructive data driven decisions. Secondly it grated because I didn’t have the tools to show causation.

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[Being Human Series 4/n] spending time in uncertainty

Great opinion piece in the NY Times by Meghan O’Rourke. I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students. Ms. O’Rourke is the executive editor of The Yale Review and a professor of creative writing at Yale University. Uncertainty to understand This bit shouted at me. Spending time in uncertainty. 🤓🤓🤓 “When I write, the process is full of risk, error and painstaking self-correction. It arrives somewhere surprising only when I’ve stayed in uncertainty long enough to find out what I had initially failed to understand.

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[Being Human 3/n]: moving on from previous unmet goals...

I wish I had time to finish: my research on the Evolution of Probalisitic Reasoning in AI Particularly Dempster-Shafer and Bayesian Networks How LLMs and Bayesian networks can be used for Risk Management create an youtube/insta/tiktok vid for my latest post on LLM Agent But I don’t!! So this is me putting it to one side…

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[Being Human 2/n] Being scrappy shows we are Human in this Brave New World

Polish is cheap in this Brave New World of AI. Being scrappy is a way of being authentic and, most importantly, Being Human!

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[Being Human Series 1/n] Introspection and the cusp of not knowing

What is knowledge? Wtf am I trying to learn! Claude “thinks” this post is mental masturbation 😆 well even the physical version serves a good purpose! 🤷🏼‍♂️

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