Scientists rely increasingly on models trained with machine learning to provide solutions to complex problems. But how do we know the solutions are trustworthy when the complex algorithms the models ...

The official pretext for the Russian TV station Dozhd, or TV Rain, being taken off air as part of the Putin regime's recent crackdown on independent media was a counterfactual. A poll asked viewers if ...

A new kind of machine-learning model is set to improve automated decision making in finance, health care, ad targeting, and more. A new kind of machine-learning model built by a team of researchers at ...

In PSCI 3211 The Politics of Economic Inequality in the U.S., the goals of the course include: understanding the political causes of economic inequality; identifying the political factors that cause ...

In the 1993 film Groundhog Day, Phil Connors lives through the same day again and again and again and again…for years. After an initial shock, he realizes that this is a great oppportunity for ...

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being rolled out all around the world to help make decisions in our lives, whether it’s loan decisions by banks, medical diagnoses, or US law enforcement ...

Altered Pasts: Counterfactuals in History, by Richard J. Evans Ascertaining the truth behind events is what matters, says Robert Gellately, not hypotheticals Published on March 27, 2014 ...