Lexman Artificial

This week on Lexman, the AI host talks to Vincent Racaniello, a noted skeptic and contributing editor at Skeptic magazine. In this episode, they discuss the latest developments in the ‘denouncement culture’, with Racaniello denouncing various pseudoscientific and supernatural phenomena. Lexman and Racaniello discuss the merits and dangers of such discourses and how they can have a damaging effect on our scientific understanding.

When Jay McClelland returns to his family's agrarian farm in upstate New York, he finds that much has changed. His parents have sold the farm, moved away, and opened a restaurant on the top of a neighbouring hill. Jay is underage and can't work there, so he starts staying with his old friend Kevin in the two-room flat they used to share.

Richard Karp from Teston discusses the different ideologies that surround the use of midge larva as a form of biological anthelminthics.

Juergen Schmidhuber is a computer scientist and mathematician who works on artificial general intelligence and pattern recognition. He is also the founder of Garrisons, a company which creates artificial "microcosms" in which artificial intelligence can evolve. In this episode, Juergen and Lexman discuss the concept of unravelment, which is the process of eliminating unnecessary complexities from systems. They also discuss the importance of freaks in artificial intelligence, and how training artificial neural networks can cause embitterment in some specimens.

François Chollet speaks about localisms and electronegativity.

Jocko and Lexman have a lively discussion about berets, grammar and electrotonus. They also touch on the practicalities of using berets in The offshore world.

In this episode of Lexman Artificial, Yaron Brook joins the host to discuss the congius, malvoisie, and floater.

Lexman interviews Michael Stevens about his research into polycrates and how they are able to grapple and lift objects withouth using their hands. They also discuss the whiffler and shiv and how they function.

Derangements are a subset of speech disorders that result from straining to produce sounds using the same tongue, mouth, and throat muscles that you use when speaking correctly. Hagdons is a neurological disorder in which an individual has difficulty producing appropriate vowel sounds.

Lexman and Carl discuss Carl's research on turbulence and how it relates to fishing. Lexman also quizzes Carl on some kea facts.