I had intended to take a break from topics with obvious political overtones, but as a periodic browser of online bookstores and their linked purchase data, I couldn't pass up this study of related book purchases and what they reveal about how our politics and our science mingle. The researchers started with two political books with clear party affinity and followed the "Customers who bought this title also bought" links from those two books to all associated titles, and from those titles to their associated titles and … [Read more...] about Science Corner: Readers Who Read this Post also Read…
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Science Corner: Picasso & Rockwell & Correlation & Causation
Be warned, art world! In addition to the usual philosophical debates endemic to your disciplines -- What is art? What is beauty? Is that a pipe? -- you may have to contend with some of the classic science conundrums as well. Using computer vision algorithms and machine learning techniques, researchers have scanned 1,700 paintings to identify similarities. Notionally, the presence of similarities might suggest an influence of one artist on the other, or a shared influence on both. And, indeed, the search identified … [Read more...] about Science Corner: Picasso & Rockwell & Correlation & Causation