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Common Sense 2001
Sunday, May 20 through Tuesday, May 22, 2001 The 2001 Symposium on Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning (Common Sense 2001) was held Sunday, May 20 through Tuesday, May 22 at {*style:<b>
It is frightening to observe how persistently people reject evidence that presents some truth inconvenient to their deeper beliefs and self identities; excessive fear of vaccines, or fluoride, or nuclear power…denial of climate change, evolution, Stunning. Some scientists dismiss such thinking as ‘irrational’. The more enlightened ones, informed by recent research into the realities of human cognition and the limits to perfect reason, accept this denialism as reality, but still blame the lay public for refusing to accept what the bulk of the facts say.
Why Some Scientists Are To Blame for Science Denialism Too | Risk: Reason and Reality
Can the Source of Funding for Medical Research Affect the Results? | Guest Blog
Many clinical research studies are funded by pharmaceutical companies and there is a general perception that such industry-based funding could potentially skew the results in favor of a new medication or device.
The world of game theory is currently on fire. In May, Freeman Dyson at Princeton University and William Press at the University of Texas announced that they had discovered a previously unknown strategy for the game of prisoner’s dilemma which guarantees one player a better outcome than the other. That’s a monumental surprise.
The Emerging Revolution in Game Theory
Things fall down, not up. You eat breakfast in the morning. If people yell at you, they're probably angry.
Common Sense Reasoning Course
The Qualitative Reasoning and Modelling ( QRM ) portal provides software tools (Garp3), documentation and support for users to build and simulate qualitative models.
Home :: The Qualitative Reasoning and Modelling Portal
[printable version] A humanoid robot is flying economy class on a major airline and is required to "eat" the packaged meal that has been served to it. Like its fellow human travellers, the robot can be assumed to be in a standard seat and to have two arms which function similarly to theirs, with similar restrictions on mobility; e.g. because of the cramped conditions, the robot's elbows have to remain close to its chest.
Common Sense Problem Page
Logics and Calculuses
Bayes' Theorem is a theorem of probability theory originally stated by the Reverend Thomas Bayes. It can be seen as a way of understanding how the probability that a theory is true is affected by a new piece of evidence.
Bayes' Theorem: Introduction
Bayesian network
A simple Bayesian network. Rain influences whether the sprinkler is activated, and both rain and the sprinkler influence whether the grass is wet. A Bayesian network , Bayes network , belief network , Bayes(ian) model or probabilistic directed acyclic graphical model is a probabilistic graphical model (a type of statistical model ) that represents a set of random variables and their conditional dependencies via a directed acyclic graph (DAG).As an introduction to the research I have been doing using and developing belief network approaches, I thought it might be useful to provide a basic introduction to what I am talking about. If you find this tutorial useful then please put a link to it on your home page. To switch to a printable form of this document hit here . Reload to return to the original form.
Amos Storkey - Research - Belief Networks
An Intuitive (and Short) Explanation of Bayes’ Theorem
Bayes’ theorem was the subject of a detailed article .Critical thinking