- On the importance of process over outcome state in doing mathematics, science, and philosophy. https://egtheory.wordpress.com/2019/08/10/process-over-state/ 52 comments philosophy
- Process over state: Math is about proofs, not theorems. https://egtheory.wordpress.com/2019/08/10/process-over-state/ 83 comments math
- On Frankfurt’s Truth and Bullshit https://egtheory.wordpress.com/2019/05/04/truth-and-bullshit/ 8 comments philosophy
- Local maxima and the fallacy of jumping to fixed-points: examples from economics, evolution, and computer science. https://egtheory.wordpress.com/2019/03/29/fallacy-of-fixed-points/ 23 comments math
- Local maxima and the fallacy of jumping to fixed-points: examples from economics, evolution, and computer science. https://egtheory.wordpress.com/2019/03/29/fallacy-of-fixed-points/ 126 comments philosophy
- Reductionism: understanding philosophy by looking at reductions in mathematics and theoretical computer science. https://egtheory.wordpress.com/2018/12/29/reductionism/ 4 comments math
- On distinguishing theorists from crackpots: "A crackpot relies primarily on positive evidence ... A theorist, on the other prong, incorporates negative evidence: she ponders hard about a problem, arrives at a theory that feels right and then proceeds to try to disprove that theory." https://egtheory.wordpress.com/2018/09/08/theory-norms/ 15 comments math
- Ancient Chinese philosophy as a lens on cancer research: the wei wu wei of evolutionary oncology. https://egtheory.wordpress.com/2018/10/20/wu-wei-of-onco/ 67 comments philosophy
- Overcoming folk-physics and the dangers of intuition: the case of projectile motion for Aristotle, John Philoponus, Ibn-Sina & Galileo https://egtheory.wordpress.com/2018/09/22/overcoming-folk-physics/ 165 comments philosophy
- Hackathons and a brief history of mathematical oncology https://egtheory.wordpress.com/2017/10/28/mathonco-hist/ 4 comments math
- Antoni Gaudi, 'true names' in the Cratylus, and learning algorithms from Nature https://egtheory.wordpress.com/2016/12/25/antoni-gaudi/ 18 comments philosophy
- Argument is the midwife of ideas (and other metaphors for philosophical argument) https://egtheory.wordpress.com/2016/08/10/midwife/ 32 comments philosophy
- Emotional contagion and rational argument in philosophical texts. https://egtheory.wordpress.com/2015/11/05/emotion-in-text/ 3 comments philosophy
- Weapons of math destruction and the ethics of Big Data: "models and algorithms are not neutral, and come with important ethical considerations that we ... are often ill-equipped to see." https://egtheory.wordpress.com/2014/09/05/ethics-of-big-data/ 10 comments philosophy
- Limits of prediction: stochasticity, chaos, and computation. [Comments on 'What Can't We Predict With Math?'] http://egtheory.wordpress.com/2014/09/30/limits-of-prediction/ 5 comments math
- Philosophy of Science and an analytic index for Feyerabend http://egtheory.wordpress.com/2014/09/26/feyerabend/ 31 comments philosophy
- Kant on Computability: Transcendental idealism and Post’s variant of the Church-Turing thesis http://egtheory.wordpress.com/2014/09/11/transcendental-idealism-and-posts-variant-of-the-church-turing-thesis/ 23 comments philosophy
- Randomness, necessity, and non-determinism: when is probability theory insufficient? A case for worst-case analysis in science. http://egtheory.wordpress.com/2013/09/13/worst-case/ 3 comments math
- Falsifiability, Hempel's dilemma, and the physicalist variant of the Church-Turing thesis. http://egtheory.wordpress.com/2014/09/01/falsifiability-and-gandys-variant-of-the-church-turing-thesis/ 9 comments philosophy
- Machine learning and prediction without understanding. http://egtheory.wordpress.com/2013/06/05/prediction-vs-understanding/ 12 comments compsci
- Philosophy of math and the historic development of Kleene’s variant of the Church-Turing thesis http://egtheory.wordpress.com/2014/04/06/kleenes-variant-of-the-church-turing-thesis/ 24 comments philosophy
- Evolution is a special kind of (machine) learning http://egtheory.wordpress.com/2014/02/14/evolution-is-machine-learning/ 3 comments artificial
- Kleene’s variant of the Church-Turing thesis, or why the CT-thesis isn't a conjecture. [x-post r/compsci] http://egtheory.wordpress.com/2014/04/06/kleenes-variant-of-the-church-turing-thesis/ 5 comments math
- Kleene’s variant of the Church-Turing thesis, or why the CT-thesis is not a conjecture. http://egtheory.wordpress.com/2014/04/06/kleenes-variant-of-the-church-turing-thesis/ 3 comments compsci
- Misunderstanding falsifiability as a power philosophy of Scientism. [x-post r/PhilosophyofScience] http://egtheory.wordpress.com/2014/04/01/falsifiability/ 6 comments philosophy
- Algorithmic Darwinism http://egtheory.wordpress.com/2014/03/25/algorithmic-darwinism/ 4 comments compsci
- Evolution is a special kind of (machine) learning http://egtheory.wordpress.com/2014/02/14/evolution-is-machine-learning/ 20 comments math
- Dogs are hosts to the oldest and most widely disseminated cancer: a single clonal line that has been living as as a parasitic life form for 11,000 years. http://egtheory.wordpress.com/2014/01/24/transmissible-cancer/ 5 comments science
- Minimizing finite state automata http://egtheory.wordpress.com/2013/09/18/minimizing-finite-state-automata/ 5 comments compsci
- Three types of mathematical models: abstractions, heuristics, and insilications. http://egtheory.wordpress.com/2013/09/08/mathematical-models/ 3 comments math
- Did Muslim scholars Al-Jahiz (781-899) and Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) foresee Darwin's evolution by natural selection? http://egtheory.wordpress.com/2013/09/04/evolution-history/ 3 comments history
- Hunger Games themed semi-iterated prisoner’s dilemma tournament with prizes up to $1000 http://egtheory.wordpress.com/2013/07/28/hunger-games-themed-semi-iterated-prisoners-dilemma-tournament/ 4 comments math
- Egalitarians’ dilemma and the cognitive cost of ethnocentrism http://egtheory.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/egalitarian-dilemma/ 6 comments cogsci
- Toward an algorithmic theory of biology http://egtheory.wordpress.com/2013/06/09/toward-an-algorithmic-theory-of-biology/ 5 comments programming
- Four color problem, odd Goldbach conjecture, and the curse of computing http://egtheory.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/curse-of-computing/ 8 comments math
- Mathematical Turing test: Readable proofs from your computer. http://egtheory.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/mathematical-turing-test/ 9 comments math
- How would Alan Turing develop biology? « Theory, Evolution, and Games Group http://egtheory.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/turing-biolog/ 7 comments math
- Generating random k-regular graphs http://egtheory.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/random-regular-graphs/ 12 comments compsci
- Chaitin's "Life as Evolving Software" completely misses the point http://egtheory.wordpress.com/2012/06/29/proving-darwin/ 7 comments compsci
- Is Gregory Chaitin proving Darwin with metabiology? (algorithmic information theory view of evolution) http://egtheory.wordpress.com/2012/06/29/proving-darwin/ 3 comments math