John Myles White » Science http://www.johnmyleswhite.com "He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense." Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:36:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Norvig and the Nature of Modern Science http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/notebook/2011/05/27/norvig-and-the-nature-of-modern-science/ http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/notebook/2011/05/27/norvig-and-the-nature-of-modern-science/#comments Fri, 27 May 2011 15:20:36 +0000 John Myles White http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/?p=4260

In this, Chomsky is in complete agreement with O’Reilly. (I recognize that the previous sentence would have an extremely low probability in a probabilistic model trained on a newspaper or TV corpus.)1

Anyone who considers themself an intellectual should be required to read this new essay by Peter Norvig. It’s the best summary I’ve ever seen of the many types of science that now exist in our world — almost all of which are moving away from the simple algebraic, deterministic models of the world that fill high school science textbooks.

  1. On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning
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