mhoyeI heard a confession from a friend the other day who's working on ML in health care who's leaving that field as soon as he can because as best as he and his team can measure, the most important thing ML analytics can bring to hospitals is the mathematical certainty they should have taken the money they spent on ML analytics and hired nurses instead.
Brian Holt
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@Cmastication it's spelled thaco.
Thaco Thursday
@SteveBHolt you know why, don't you?
@amelia what degree does china have a military compared to corporations having a military?
Carl T. BergstromTo understand how they do this, people need to understand how science is structured. Who does it? Where, and paid by whom? What motivates them? What are their incentives and reward structures? What makes someone credible as a scientist? What constitutes expertise, and how is it acquired and demonstrated? What is the role of peer review in science? How does the scientific community deal with uncertainty and disagreement? What is scientific consensus? How is it formed? How can it be overturned?
@gabotuit @ct_bergstrom I think what I'm hearing from the thread is that just because you've been taught and even practice it, they critical thinking parts of the scientific method it's still a relatively concrete "tech" application of a much deeper, abstract philosophy of knowledge.
I think about the differences between car mechanics of old who were taught to hypothesize about how a car should work vs the technicians today who basically just let the computer diagnose the problem.
@olavf @ct_bergstrom oddly This is my experience of everybody else. When I point out that many young people, under 40, talk about philosophy of science, they only seem to recognize realism, and don't recognize constructivism, as a simplified contrast. I just wonder where the heck they didn't get taught philosophy of science.
@ehud @ct_bergstrom one could make the case that we've done is all a disservice in oversimplifying Popper's work.
@ct_bergstrom this is where the recent secretary of education's tweet about meeting industry's needs is so sad and frustrating
@Cmastication this isn't the vertical farming that I saw in the brochure