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Remembering Bernie Widrow, a Great Engineer and a Wise Scientist

Widrow called his learning machine a neural network because it was loosely based on the 1943 McCulloch-Pitts model of the biological neuron. Read More ›
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Photo: Moniopterus japonicus, modified after Haga et al. 2010, https://doi.org/10.1666/09-126.1, fair use.

Fossil Friday: Moniopterus — Snake, Beetle, or Mollusk?

Scientists are only humans and many of them see what they want to see. Fossils often leave a lot of room for wild imagination and wishful thinking. Read More ›
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Photo: Medium ground finch, Galápagos Islands, by Charlesjsharp (Own work, from Sharp Photography, sharpphotography) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Zombie Watch: Debunked Finches Re-Emerge to Validate Darwin

Another paper regurgitates a myth that was thoroughly debunked by Jonathan Wells in Zombie Science. Read More ›

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