Tag: Information Theory | Page 2

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Author
Jonathan Bartlett
Date
August 13, 2018

Categorized
Machine Learning, Social Factors

Tagged
ETFs, Exchange Traded Funds, Information Theory, stock market}

Who Creates Information in a Market?

_{Do exchange-traded funds (ETFs)' algorithms make personally gathering information obsolete?} _{Jonathan Bartlett

August 13, 2018

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Machine Learning, Social Factors}

Algorithmic strategies can only be as good as the information that goes into them. Ignoring how the information is created causes us to misunderstand the dynamics of value creation. Algorithms can leverage information, they can’t create it.

Reconciling mind with materialism, twenty-five years on

_{Jerry Fodor posits that the reason "we're all materialists" is the alternatives seem even worse} _{Denyse O'Leary

July 19, 2018

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Philosophy of Mind}

Thinking of philosophical materialism as a science must have seemed like a step forward at the time. Over twenty-five years later, there have been dozens of theories of consciousness jostling for the podium, most of them “worse than wrong,” even in the eyes of a sympathetic observer (2016). Not only has the materialist approach failed but in recent years, its failure has brought serious intellectual figures round to such views as consciousness is an illusion or that everything is conscious.