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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks

Date
April 23, 2020

Tagged
air quality, autocorrect, binary digit, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Daniel Andrés Díaz-Pachón, DNA, Information, mutation, Shannon information}

COVID-19: How 900 Bytes Changed the World

_{Robert J. Marks and Daniel Andrés Díaz-Pachón

April 23, 2020}

Human biology is so finely tuned that less than a kilobyte of information can stop the world. Robert J. Marks and Dr. Daniel Andrés Díaz-Pachón discuss COVID-19, DNA, and information. Show Notes 01:09 | Introducing Dr. Daniel Andrés Díaz-Pachón, Research Assistant Professor in the Division of Biostatistics at the University of Miami and Senior Researcher at the Evolutionary Informatics Lab Read More ›

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post

Author
News

Date
January 14, 2019

Categorized
Ethics, Social Factors

Tagged
fake news, Featured, Information, journalism, Retraction, retractions, Social Factors, social media, studies, truth}

Research Showing That Fake News Easily Fools Us Collapses

_{A recent paper claiming that low-quality news (“fake news”) spreads as quickly on social media as accurate news has been retracted by its authors.} _{News

January 14, 2019

Ethics, Social Factors}

A team from the Shanghai Institute of Technology sought to study whether accuracy made any difference to whether a post goes viral on social media. They cited a concern about “the digital misinformation that threatens our democracy.” Read More ›

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post

Author
Eric Holloway

Date
December 27, 2018

Categorized
Machine Learning

Tagged
Featured, Information, Kolmogorov information, meaning, Order, Randomness, Shannon information}

How Can We Measure Meaningful Information?

_{Neither randomness nor order alone creates meaning. So how can we identify communications?} _{Eric Holloway

December 27, 2018

Machine Learning}

Dropping a handful of toothpicks on the table seems to produce a different sort of pattern than spelling out a word with toothpicks. Surprisingly, this intuitive distinction is harder to make in math and the sciences. Algorithmic specified complexity (ASC) enables us to distinguish them. Read More ›