Cognitive Engineering

Cognitive Engineering

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Cognitive Engineering episodes

  • Averages

    Peter, Nick and Fraser discuss what the point of averages is, and whether we will need them any more in a world of machine analysis.

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    20 min
  • Leicester City

    Nick, Peter and Fraser discuss why Leicester City winning the Premier League was perhaps not all that surprising.

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    19 min
  • Irrationality

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

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    23 min
  • Borges Library Of Babel

    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.

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    20 min
  • Karate Kid

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

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    18 min
  • Hamburgers

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

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    17 min
  • Celebrity Death Wave

    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.

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    16 min
  • Cruftsgate

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

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    18 min
  • Cosmopolitanism

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



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    16 min
  • Trump and Uncertainty

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

    Links referenced in this episode:

    • politifact



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    15 min

About Cognitive Engineering

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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.