Hacker NewsChomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning
https://norvig.com/chomsky.html
#HackerNews #Chomsky #StatisticalLearning #TwoCultures #AI #Linguistics
bsmall2> Snow's.. assumption..[was]that the salvation of underdeveloped countries depends.. on the import, training and development of scientists and engineers.. economically and eliminate disparities peaceably by the year 2000..reverses.. in 1963 with The #TwoCultures: A Second Look and acknowledges..[his] original motivating assumption of "dichotomous parsing of intellectual life into contrarian literary and scientific camps" was not.. true.. Snow was sorry for having failed to recognize a.. continuous spectrum of intellectual life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hedgehog,_the_Fox,_and_the_Magister's_Pox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hedgehog,_the_Fox,_and_the_Magister's_Pox
Jonathan EmmesediArts and humanities advocates for education and research funding should not fall into the trap of suggesting that STEM subjects are "useful" but arts & humanities are what make life worth living.
A scientific understanding of the world is part of a good life for us all and worth pursuing as an end in itself, regardless of any benefits it might otherwise deliver to us.
I suspect that while many scientists and technologists feel obliged to emphasize the importance of material and social benefits on their grant applications, what really motivate them are wonder, curiosity, and a determination to solve difficult puzzles.
This kind of motivation has much in common with what drives humanities academics.
Let's stop perpetuating the "Two Cultures" myth.
Jan Horstmann"while there isn’t really any difference between that which is generally called #SocialScience and that which is sometimes called the #Humanities and sometimes “the Arts,” there is a very real distinction to be drawn between #twocultures of knowledge production, each of which is to be found in both of the aforementioned. There is a place for #computation [...] in one of these cultures, but in the other, there is not" (Allington 2022, 373)
http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350232143.ch-35
#dhtheorie
http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350232143.ch-35
#dhtheorie
Jon AwbreyMy and my fave co-author's last best thoughts on #ScienceAndSociety, #TwoCultures, etc.
Conceptual Barriers to Creating Integrative Universities
• https://www.academia.edu/1266492/Conceptual_Barriers_to_Creating_Integrative_Universities
Conceptual Barriers to Creating Integrative Universities
Today’s society looks to universities for solutions to broad-based issues that require cross-disciplinary expertise. Yet, the organizational structure of our institutions remains locked in academic and administrative silos that have little genuine
mart1oeilEconometrics (left) vs Machine Learning (right), in a nutshell : in the later case, very complex patterns can be identified by the machine, but hard to interpret and understand; econometricians prefer to find some structure, where things are more simple to derive... #TwoCultures
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/freakonometrics/status/1150685599780745216
Arthur Charpentier 🌻 on Twitter
“Econometrics (left) vs Machine Learning (right), in a nutshell : in the later case, very complex patterns can be identified by the machine, but hard to interpret and understand; econometricians prefer to find some structure, where things are more simple to derive... #TwoCultures https://t.co/0PFlZJZ5Ez”