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…ng knowledge known only to you involves relying on com- monly known rules about causation. What about prediction? You can believe that New York will beat Philadelphia in football. You can predict it based on evidence. You can explain the cause and effect that have made you come...

Risk-averse clients in the omnibus fund can take short legs, and risk-tolerant ones long legs. Management of the omnibus fund can handle the mechanics of the swaps or futures. The effect would be not less leverage per se, since leverage at the individual account level is substi...

…ions. They become, as a result, complex. That old lemma of parenting - You’re only as happy as your least happy child - can be laid upon our devices. You're as complex as the most complex device you're linked to. Linkage to a complex network is like the difference between a boxe...

… 2011 at 12:18 AM, Lawrence Krauss __________________________ wrote: Beyond anything else, you are my friend. I hope we can both always remember that, no matter what. Are you coming this weekend at all? Lawrence Krauss Foundation Professor School of Earth and Space Exploration an...

…o, most kids already know what they are being asked to “experiment” about. They know the pencil falls and they know you can make noise by blowing through things. They may not understand how all this works, but they won’t understand much mote after doing these so-called “experimen...

… in a for-life dictator- ship, reminiscent of Mao's China, the Soviet Union, the Kim family in North Korea and some African countries. It is no challenge to explain why abolishing term limits is bad for China - dependency on one human being who is not omni- scient but is hostage...

ranks with The Oppressive Class means we can ruthlessly use their power for good. Can we do better at making feminist discourses around gender and sexuality open to normative men, without driving ourselves crazy? How can we make our movement open to, and accepting of, normative...

…ars. According to the USEPA and the FDEP established standards, the City’s drinking water supply is of good quality and can be consumed directly without concern. For those who want an added measure of protection, substituting bottled drinking water is an option or under the kitch...

… from the signals it receives. This is similar to our engineer probing the terminals of the circuit of a black box. How can we know our experience of the world is real? Understanding the World The French philosopher Descartes gave us an explanation for this paradox. He spent a...

…ately reflected in the company’s books and records so that the company and its management are aware of the payments and can assure that the payments were properly made under the circumstances. For example, in one instance, a Kazakh immigration prosecutor threatened to fine, jail,...

… Artificial Intelligence initiative. What is the mind? –this is arguably the most interesting question that our species can ask itself. Last month, a grand proposal by Barack Obama made headlines everywhere in the world: He suggested a large-­‐scale initiative to create a detaile...

Tm OTe As usual, no politics C"Democrat Republican") or politicians C"Obama" "Bush" "Clinton" "Palin", etc.), editorials, opeds, opinion pieces, flippancy. No ad hominem comments. No self-promotion: referencing your books, papers, courses, “selling from the stage", pushing your...

…r case. He does not believe the Town’s position that the fine should start tomorrow is correct. He believes the Board can only find violations of subsections (d) through (g) of 10-45. There have been no allegations that Dr. Lynn has violated subsections (d) through (g). Mr. M...

…see you down there.. working hard now after a week of traveling with Johnny and late nights, to finish my new book so I can actually celebrate that as planned on the trip. Lawrence M. Krauss Director, The Origins Project at ASU Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative Foundation Profess...

…es out of optimizing it isn’t what we want. Intuitive reward functions, when combined with unusual instances of a task, can lead to unintuitive behavior. You reward an agent in a racing game with a score in the game, and in some cases it finds a loophole that it exploits to gain...