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Dec 14, 2019

Web Scraping with Python Made Easy

Imagine you run a business selling shoes online and wanted to monitor how your competitors price their products. You could spend hours a day clicking through page after page or write a script for a web bot, an automated piece of software that keeps track a site’s updates. …

Web Scraping

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Nov 18, 2019

A Computational Theory of Mind

Brains are only like computers in a specific abstract sense. We can take apart this analogy in the context of the brain-computer analogy to determine knowledge for philosophy, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and other research areas. It’s very harmful in many ways to treat the nervous system as the hardware in…

Artificial Intelligence

19 min read

A Computational Theory of Mind
A Computational Theory of Mind

Nov 13, 2019

Don’t Read this Book if you want Solutions in Life

Cartoonist Randall Munroe shares satirical advice about the world for anyone curious. The creator of the popular webcomic xkcd has come up with solutions to life’s problems. Results may vary.

Books

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Hussain Ather — Science. Philosophy. Culture. — Don’t Read this Book if you want Solutions in Life
Hussain Ather — Science. Philosophy. Culture. — Don’t Read this Book if you want Solutions in Life

Oct 21, 2019

What makes us special

Short answer: thinking. Why? Turning to analytic philosophy, you’ll find reasons stretching across consciousness and souls in why thinking makes us special. Evolutionary scientists explain how cognition and the ability to reflect, contemplate and ponder let humans overcome obstacles and struggle against nature. Thought transcending the surroundings of the world…

Philosophy

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What makes us special
What makes us special

Oct 6, 2019

The link between cognition and emotion

It’s easy to think of cognition and emotion as separate from one another, but research in cognitive science and neuroscience have suggested the two are more closely linked than we’d like to believe. Cognition can be defined as activities related to thought processes that let us gain knowledge about the…

Psychology

6 min read

The link between cognition and emotion
The link between cognition and emotion

Sep 13, 2019

Time and Dreams in Political Unrest

With every tick of the clock I awake, escape the shock as I exit the dark of my dreams, as Jung would remark. Yet not understood. They say time flies. With age, the days feel shorter. Life speeds up, and it doesn’t slow down. The years start coming, and they…

Philosophy

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Hussain Ather — Science. Philosophy. Culture. — Time and Dreams in Political Unrest
Hussain Ather — Science. Philosophy. Culture. — Time and Dreams in Political Unrest

Jul 23, 2019

The Weil Conjectures: A tale of mathematics, philosophy, and art

For some, mathematics much more than a matter of solving problems. It transcends abstraction and intellectual pursuit into a way of determining meaning from life. For a brother and sister, it can mean a relentless search for truth that reads like a Romantic fable. A history that consists of settings…

Philosophy

13 min read

The Weil Conjectures: A tale of mathematics, philosophy, and art
The Weil Conjectures: A tale of mathematics, philosophy, and art

Jul 18, 2019

Neuralink: the allure of brain-computer interfaces

As the gap between humans and computers becomes smaller every day, the startup Neuralink, backed by figures including Elon Musk, Vanessa Tolosa, and other individuals, recently hosted a public conference in which they revealed their efforts create neural interfaces between brains and computers. The futuristic dream of a brain-computer interface…

Artificial Intelligence

3 min read


Jul 11, 2019

The neuroscientific basis of consciousness

Scientists and philosophers alike have examined and pondered about consciousness, one of the most central problems in our experience of the world. Both approaches may seek different methods, with science being empirical and philosophy, speculative, but they’re both relevant to any discussion on such a complicated phenomena. Understanding how neural…

Neuroscience

8 min read

The neuroscientific basis of consciousness
The neuroscientific basis of consciousness

Jul 7, 2019

A metamodernist narrative of genetic engineering

With the ethical concerns raised by issues of gene editing of human embryos, academic ethics research has set the foundation for and…

Science

10 min read

A metamodernist narrative of genetic engineering
A metamodernist narrative of genetic engineering
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