math Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date August 18, 2023 CategoriesMathematicsNeuroscience & MindScience Education Tagged , algebra, algorithms, ancient Greeks, Arabs, California, Colin Wright, education, Jerry Coyne, literacy, pi, pizza, private truth, Pythagorean Theorem, Richard Dawkins, social justice, University of Nevada, whiteness, zero What Deep Social Change Underlies the War on Math? Denyse O’Leary August 18, 2023 Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Science Education 6 The universal language of science is sinking under the weight of claims about trauma and privilege. Read More ›
numbers Type post Author William A. Dembski Date May 30, 2023 CategoriesIntelligent DesignNeuroscience & MindScientific Reasoning Tagged , abduction, artificial general intelligence, artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, CIA, computers, digits, Erik Larson, Fibonacci sequence, Harvard University Press, numbers, patterns, pi, spaces, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, Wolfgang Pauli Breaking ChatGPT: Its Inability to Find Patterns in Numerical Sequences William A. Dembski May 30, 2023 Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning 10 Pattern completion tasks like this have been part of aptitude testing for a long time. The NSA and CIA, for instance, have used them to help in hiring analysts. Read More ›
Fermi Spirograph Type post Date March 30, 2022 CategoriesIntelligent DesignPhysical SciencesPhysics Tagged , Carl Sagan, Contact (novel), Cosmos Magazine, electromagnetism, extraterrestrials, Fibonacci sequence, fine structure constant, Golden Ratio, intelligent design, Paul Davies, pi, Planck’s constant, quantum mechanics, relativity, Richard Feynman, University of Nottingham, Wolfgang Pauli Unexplained — Maybe Unexplainable — Numbers Control the Universe Science and Culture March 30, 2022 Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics 4 Richard Feynman called 1/137, the fine structure constant, “a magic number that comes to us with no understanding by man.” Read More ›