I’m loving this podcast series. A nice way to pull back from the daily minutia of inference and machine learning.
(via New Books in Science, Technology, and Society — Just another New Books Network podcast)
November 21, 2012
June 22, 2012
"In a postscript to later editions of Structure, Kuhn recommended that paradigm be replaced with the term “exemplar,” but it never caught on. He eventually gave up all hope of explaining what he really meant. “If you’ve got a bear by the tail, there comes a point at which you’ve got to let it go and stand back,” he sighed."
— What Thomas Kuhn Really Thought about Scientific “Truth”
By John Horgan
(Source: metafilter.com)
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