Harris and Peterson on Good and EvilIn a recent podcast, Jordan Peterson and Sam Harris try to find some common ground, because apparently they have quite differing opinions…Jan 22, 2024Jan 22, 2024
The banality of Evil: A critique of the trial of EichmannEichmann on Trial, A report on the Banality of Evil, written by Arendt in 1962, follows the trail of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Eichmann…Jan 17, 2024Jan 17, 2024
Methods in Social Sciences: The Positivist approachThis article aims to present the positivist method used in social science research. We’ll understand what the method is and what the limits…Jan 20, 2023Jan 20, 2023
Sometimes you need a lot more data than you thinkThis article brings to light work undertaken by Nassim Taleb. Taleb’s work focuses on fat-tailed distributions and how things are not…Nov 11, 20221Nov 11, 20221
Viewpoint :Max Weber and Value free sociologyCan something really exist outside of some value system? Is it possible that one can be ‘objective’ and completely remove the…Dec 8, 2020Dec 8, 2020
What is prostitution really about?I am here to invoke some ideas about what the point of prostitution really is. I come at this topic from a male perspective, not a…Jan 24, 2020Jan 24, 2020
Machine Learning as an Operations and Process.The internet is flooded with information on how to do machine learning, deploy machine learning etc etc, but how do we think about it…Jan 12, 2020Jan 12, 2020
Verstehen : Max Weber and an approach to social sciencesThis is the first of a number of posts dedicated to the thought of Max Weber. Max Weber, along side Karl Max and Emile Durkheim, is known…Dec 29, 2019Dec 29, 2019
Comparing DistributionsIn the following we overview some methods which can be used to asses similarity/difference between distributions.The article will not…Oct 24, 20191Oct 24, 20191
Published inThe StartupScalable Gaussian Processes: Posterior Approximation MethodsThis article builds on the previous ones which highlighted techniques which exist in scaling Gaussian Processes. In this post we discuss…Oct 21, 2019Oct 21, 2019
