prediction
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Brain power
Are creative individuals best at envisioning the future?
For most people, it is difficult to transcend the here and now, but do creative experts have an advantage?
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Brain power
Predictive algorithms are no better at telling the future than a crystal ball
Business managers often rely on predictive algorithms to make recruiting decisions that affect a company's bottom line. But these kinds…
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Systems & complexity
Models and Truth: Predictive versus Narrative Modeling [Systems thinking & modelling series]
There are only two fundamental approaches to constructing models: predictive modeling and narrative modeling.
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Systems & complexity
Models and Truth: Prediction, Inference, and Narrative [Systems thinking & modelling series]
It is useful to base our discussions of models on the model’s driving purpose.
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Brain power
Using prediction markets to verify research
A Harvard project is showing that prediction markets have potential in offering a quick and easy way of testing research…
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Tools & methods
How machines learn, and how that can help us
You’ve probably heard people talk about about machine learning and its importance. But do you really know what it is,…