Fellow Unbelievers:

In 1776, the Western world still understood human societies as hierarchies, enforced by authority.

Fantastic article from Commentary and Allen Guelzo. It absolutely hit home about the ideals that underpinned our founding, where we fell short, and where we did better. I was amazed to learn the full extent our founding…[Read more]

And if we’re to benefit from these proteins, we’d best get cracking and use AI and Ion Mass Spectrometry to observe and possibly craft these proteins as needed.

Understanding protein chains is one of the greatest initial accomplishments of AI. Before AI we had a very small library of knowledge on the structure of protein chains. Some sci…[Read more]

Reg:

Occam’s Razor is not dead. It has been demoted. It is no longer the supreme judge of scientific truth as Nature may not owe us humans a simple explanation.

Nature has always been complicated from the time we first beheld it and started thinking about it. Occam’s Razor is not a rule for the Natural Universe, it is a rule for our attempt t…[Read more]

Reg:

AI shows promise in the fight against fake news.

Here’s hoping it does good because fighting Misinformation/Disinformation/Malinformation is hard enough between humans of different cultures and languages, even with smartphone translators.

Today, at the store where I work, a Caribbean man was sporting a florescent yellowish green shirt…[Read more]

Simon, here is a great read from a previous Sunday School….Life is Simple…

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Occam’s Razor is not dead. It has been demoted. It is no longer the supreme judge of scientific truth as Nature may not owe us humans a simple explanation.

I would say that Nature is elegant but not necessarily simple.  I don’t believe the most simple explanation is the right one.

I was surprised to read that Ireland is to consider decriminalizing the possession of all drugs for personal use. I have smoked weed throughout my adult life (a few times a year) and nobody cares about it. But I suspect the religious objectors will be out in force again even though they keep losing (marriage equality, abortion, divorce). It will…[Read more]

Thanks Reg!