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Jonathan Bartlett
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June 8, 2019
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Machine Learning Dates Back To at Least 300 BC

The key to machine learning is not machines but mathematics
Jonathan Bartlett
June 8, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Machine learning is not a new technique, but is simply a modern extension of a tool that we have had in our toolbox since the days of the Babylonians. It continues to serve us well to help us extrapolate our data to estimate the value of unknown results and to help find the signal in noisy data.

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Winston Ewert
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October 30, 2018
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Is Technology Neutral?

Or does it change our world whether we like it or not?
Winston Ewert
October 30, 2018
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Social Factors
People tend to be one of two minds when it comes to technology. One group views technology as directional—altering those cultures it reaches. They construct plausible narratives about how this or that technology has changed our culture. The second group views technology as neutral. They dismiss the narrative put forward by the first group, explaining that such changes are due to forces within the culture, not to technology. Read More ›