Ellie Macleod
@elliemac
Ellie Macleod
Causation is always more difficult to prove than Correlation. When analyzing complex Systems with many variables and Interdependencies, it’s often extremely difficult to find true causality.
Josh Kaufman • The Personal MBA: A World-Class Business Education in a Single Volume
Pablo Picasso: “Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.” James Baldwin: “Perhaps the primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.” Bob Dylan: “To be creative you’ve got to be unsociable and tight-assed.”
Cultivating a State of Mind Where New Ideas Are Born
Imagination is our gift as a species to move purposefully towards what does not yet exist and walk willingly through the unknown to get there. It has a power to change what seems possible and so to shift what becomes possible. Moral imagination looks inward as much as it acts outward. It works with a long sense of time and opens its eyes to assumpt... See more
Three Callings for Your Life and for Our Time | The On Being Project
Causality, broadly interpreted, includes any kind of knowledge about how the world changes over time.*1
Ernest Davis • Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust
Happy the Man, who, studying Nature's Laws, / Thro' known Effects can trace the secret Cause
Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas
“causation” is simple, if a little metaphorical: a variable X is a cause of Y if Y “listens” to X and determines its value in response to what it hears.
Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie • The Book of Why
when we find the convergence of where we belong and where we are encouraged or at least allowed to make a contribution, the magic happens.