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The p-value: How a Convenient Threshold Became Science's Gatekeeper
Ronald Fisher suggested p < 0.05 as a rule of thumb in 1925. He never meant it to become the global standard for what counts as true.
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People in AI History
The scientists, mathematicians, and engineers whose ideas shaped modern AI.
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Cybernetics: The Science That Almost Became AI
Norbert Wiener invented cybernetics to understand how brains, machines, and missiles aim at targets.
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The Turing Test: A Question That Defined a Century
Turing's original test involved a human, a machine, and a gender-guessing game.
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ELIZA: The Chatbot That Unsettled Its Own Creator
ELIZA's creator was disturbed that people genuinely opened up to his chatbot.
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The Bitter Lesson: Why Scale Keeps Beating Cleverness
Richard Sutton argued that 70 years of AI showed one lesson: compute always wins over human knowledge.