Theory, Evolution, and Games Group

For the final — third — day of the Santa Fe Institute workshop on “What is Biological Computation?” (11 – 13 September) organized by Albert Kao, Jessica Flack, and David Wolpert, we ope...

https://egtheory.wordpress.com/2019/09/28/biological-computation-3/

In the earlier days of TheEGG, I used to write extensively about the themes of some of the smaller conferences and workshops that I attended. One of the first such workshops I blogged about in de...

https://egtheory.wordpress.com/2019/09/21/biological-computation-2/

This week, I was visiting the Santa Fe Institute for a workshop organized by Albert Kao, Jessica Flack, and David Wolpert on “What is biological computation?” (11 – 13 September 2019). It w...

https://egtheory.wordpress.com/2019/09/14/biological-computation-1/

Bayesianism is one of the more popular frameworks in cognitive science. Alongside other similar probalistic models of cognition, it is highly encouraged in the cognitive sciences (Chater, Tenenba...

https://egtheory.wordpress.com/2019/09/07/bayesian-mind/

In his 1951 paper on the “Two Dogmas of Empiricism”, W.V.O Quine introduced the Web of Belief as a metaphor for his holistic epistemology of scientific knowledge. With this metaphor, Quine ai...

https://egtheory.wordpress.com/2019/08/31/web-of-c-lief/

This week I was in Turku, Finland for the annual congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology. I presented in the symposium on mathematical models in evolutionary biology organized b...

https://egtheory.wordpress.com/2019/08/24/eseb-idealization-vs-abstraction/

One of the most interesting ongoing problems in metascience right now is the replication crisis. This a methodological crisis around the difficulty of reproducing or replicating past studies. If ...

https://egtheory.wordpress.com/2019/08/17/algotrading-replication/

A couple of days ago, Maylin and I went to pick blackberries along some trails near our house. We spent a number of hours doing it and eventually I turned all those berries into one half-litre ja...

https://egtheory.wordpress.com/2019/08/10/process-over-state/

‘Power-law’ is one of the biggest buzzwords in complexology. Almost everything is a power-law. I’ve even used it to sell my own work. But most work that deals in power-laws tends to lack ri...

https://egtheory.wordpress.com/2019/08/02/random-power-law-graphs/

A few weeks ago, David Basanta reached out to me (and many other members of the mathematical oncology community) about building a community blog together. This week, to coincide with the Society ...

https://egtheory.wordpress.com/2019/07/27/blogging-community-of-computational-and-mathematical-oncologists/