[This is a guest post by Talia’s friend Annie, who is maintaining this blog while Talia is away at Middlebury Language Schools] In my last post on here I mentioned that my job involves writing programs that identify important information from text documents. When testing these programs, there are two main ways of evaluating the accuracy of their […]
[This is a guest post by Talia’s friend Annie, who is maintaining this blog while Talia is away at Middlebury Language School. Also, I’m sorry this post is a couple days late; I’ve been really busy this week.] The “Chinese room” is a famous thought experiment in philosophy of mind that argues that, no matter […]
[This is a guest post by Talia’s friend Annie, who is managing this blog while Talia is away at Middlebury Language Schools.] In his memoir, physicist Richard Feynman shares an anecdote about going birdwatching with his father as a child: One kid says to me, “See that bird? What kind of bird is that?” I […]