Radio Specials
Invisibilia: The Pattern Problem
A panel of judges sits to decide the fate of the young woman. She’s the child of addicts and an ex-addict and ex-felon herself, and she’s asking the court to trust her to become an attorney. The outcome of her case hinges on a question we all struggle with: are we destined to repeat our patterns, or do we generally stray in surprising directions? It’s a question increasingly relevant in an age when algorithms are trying to predict everything about our behavior.
Deep. What CAN you predict? ..and can the algorithms "work" re a single specimen, amidst n-others/all with beaucoup data-points??