Cognitive Engineering

Return to the Library Of Babel 09.07.2016 15:58 ↓

Nick, Peter and Fraser return to the Library of Babel and discuss how to go about building one.

Averages 01.07.2016 19:07 ↓

Peter, Nick and Fraser discuss what the point of averages is, and whether we will need them any more in a world of machine analysis.

Leicester City 25.06.2016 18:29 ↓

Nick, Peter and Fraser discuss why Leicester City winning the Premier League was perhaps not all that surprising.

Irrationality 18.06.2016 22:01 ↓

Nick, Peter and Fraser make some irrational assertions about decision-making.

Borges Library Of Babel 10.06.2016 19:20 ↓

Peter, Nick, Fraser and special guest Andres get lost in the vastness of Jorge Luis Borges’s Library of Babel and discuss what it tells us about probability, information, language and meaning.

Karate Kid 03.06.2016 17:18 ↓

Peter, Nick and Fraser discuss the the hit 1980s movie, The Karate Kid, and what it suggests about learning and skills development.

Hamburgers 27.05.2016 16:59 ↓

Peter, Fraser and Nick discuss the threat posed by rare hamburgers, and ways of assessing risk in the absence of data.

Celebrity Death Wave 20.05.2016 15:50 ↓

Peter, Nick and Fraser discuss the 2016 spike in celebrity deaths, how the scientific method applies to analysing it, and some of the fundamental constraints of fame.

Cruftsgate 16.05.2016 17:19 ↓

Nick, Peter and Fraser discuss what Cuftsgate tells us about classification and categorisation.

Cosmopolitanism 06.05.2016 15:29 ↓

Nick, Peter and Fraser discuss what cosmopolitanism is, and how it affects our beliefs about the world.

Trump and Uncertainty 29.04.2016 14:09 ↓

The rise of Donald Trump prompts Nick, Peter and Fraser to discuss the limits of forecasting behaviour.

AlphaGo 21.04.2016 16:07 ↓

Nick, Peter and Fraser discuss what AlphaGo's triumph over Lee Sedol might mean for analysis and decision making.