Technological innovations can seem relentless. In computing, some have proclaimed that "a year in machine learning is a century in any other field." But how do you know whether those advancements are ...

Pseudoscience is a system of explanations, methods, and assumptions that pose as science but don’t follow core scientific principles like testability and falsifiability. Pseudoscience is different ...

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(THE CONVERSATION) Technological innovations can seem relentless. In computing, some have proclaimed that “a year in machine learning is a century in any other field.” But how do you know whether ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Borrowing from the language of science, this question is really about validity – that ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kai R. Larsen, University of Colorado Boulder; Roman Lukyanenko, University of ...