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Cognitive Engineering

Summary: Welcome to the Cognitive Engineering podcast. Occasionally coherent musings of Aleph Insights. We hope you like listening to them as much as we like recording them.

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Podcasts:

 Irrationality | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:22:01

Nick, Peter and Fraser make some irrational assertions about decision-making.

 Borges Library Of Babel | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:19:20

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 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:17:17

Peter, Nick and Fraser discuss the the hit 1980s movie, The Karate Kid, and what it suggests about learning and skills development.

 Hamburgers | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:16:58

Peter, Fraser and Nick discuss the threat posed by rare hamburgers, and ways of assessing risk in the absence of data.

 Celebrity Death Wave | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:15:50

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 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:17:18

Nick, Peter and Fraser discuss what Cuftsgate tells us about classification and categorisation.

 Cosmopolitanism | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:15:28

Nick, Peter and Fraser discuss what cosmopolitanism is, and how it affects our beliefs about the world.

 Trump and Uncertainty | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:14:09

The rise of Donald Trump prompts Nick, Peter and Fraser to discuss the limits of forecasting behaviour.

 AlphaGo | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:16:07

Nick, Peter and Fraser discuss what AlphaGo's triumph over Lee Sedol might mean for analysis and decision making.

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