Cognitive Engineering

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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