My last post discussed my disapproval of describing behavior as analogous to a computer program. In particular, that post focused on the idea that behavior is inherited, and thus somehow must be encoded in DNA, and thus DNA includes instructions for behavior in addition to blueprints for building proteins. I accept that there…
Many of my earlier discussions about data science focused on dark data as deserving continuous scrutiny. Today I want to talk more about the idea of forbidden data. Like dark data, it has a valuable role in data science, but it also deserves continuous scrutiny. I described dark data as something we invent to…
Cosmology has a little problem with their math. The amount of known mass falls short of what can explain the motions in galaxies. The amount of known energy falls short of what can explain the accelerating expansion of the universe. The answer is dark matter and dark energy. Dark simply means it is unknown. I…
In an earlier article I was thinking about the meaning of nothingness that separates the particles inside an atom or that separates celestial bodies. It occurs to me now that maybe they may not be the same kind of nothingness. Thinking about nothingness turns it into something and that makes possible the idea that that…
Hypothesis Discovery 