Being Human Series

[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” I 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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