Cognitive Engineering

Remember your passport: Why are things hard to remember? 21.10.2016 18:56 ↓

Nick, Peter and Fraser discuss why it is hard to remember some important things, but easy to remember others.

Changing lanes 14.10.2016 18:43 ↓

Nick, Peter and Fraser discuss whether lane changing gets you anywhere.

Shop front signalling 08.10.2016 21:35 ↓

Nick, Peter and Fraser talk about what the presentation of shop fronts tells up about signalling and quality.

Fraud Detection and Machine Learning 30.09.2016 29:29 ↓

Fraser, Peter, and Nick discuss how machine learning can be used to fight online fraudsters, with special guest Mairtin O'Riada, CIO of Ravelin.

The value of games 23.09.2016 22:17 ↓

Nick, Peter and Fraser discuss the value of playing games and whether they can help you learn.

Investing in Yahoo: Spotting Potential 16.09.2016 22:00 ↓

Nick, Peter and Fraser discuss why it is so hard to spot future potential in ideas.

How long should a podcast be? 09.09.2016 25:42 ↓

Nick, Peter and Fraser ponder the length of podcasts and what that tells us about the size of an idea.

Sunspring 02.09.2016 20:15 ↓

Peter, Nick and Fraser discuss the film Sunspring, written by an artificial intelligence. Is it a novelty or a sign of things to come?

Olympics and Marginal Gains 26.08.2016 21:13 ↓

Nick, Peter and Fraser discuss what the Olympics show us about the the human pursuit to reach for the limits of performance.

The Chilcot Inquiry 19.08.2016 24:56 ↓

Nick, Peter and Fraser discuss mechanisms of government decision making in the wake of the Chilcot Report. http://www.iraqinquiry.org.uk

Ad Blocking 13.08.2016 17:20 ↓

Nick, Peter and Fraser discuss ad blocking and what it can tell us about messaging.

Summer Classification 05.08.2016 19:11 ↓

Peter, Nick and Fraser discuss what summer is, and how we know when it's started.

Terrorism Prediction with Big Data 29.07.2016 21:55 ↓

Fraser, Nick and Peter consider the use of Big Data for prediction of terrorist attacks. New online ecology of adversarial aggregates: ISIS and beyond: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6292/1459

Referendum Part 2 24.07.2016 18:48 ↓

Fraser, Nick and Peter wonder if they have had enough of experts.

Referendum Part 1 15.07.2016 19:49 ↓

In the wake of the Brexit vote, Peter, Nick and Fraser discuss what referendums can tell us, and what technology means for democracy.

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.