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White Paper: The Relevance of the No Free Lunch Theorems to Unguided Stepwise Searches for Solutions

Posted on August 11, 2025 by nathanalbright

Abstract The No Free Lunch (NFL) theorems, originally formulated in the context of optimization and machine learning, establish that averaged over all possible objective functions, all search and optimization algorithms perform equally well. Any algorithm’s advantage in one class of … Continue reading →

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On The Difficulties Of Getting AI To See Itself As Non-Evolutionary

Posted on February 19, 2025 by nathanalbright

One of the more frustrating experiencing with using AI is the lazy and inaccurate tendency for AI to see processes as evolutionary when they are anything but. Getting the AI to recognize this, as shown in the discourse below, can … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Parasitic Mind

Posted on August 23, 2024 by nathanalbright

The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense, by Gad Saad The most compelling part of this book is the author’s own personal story and how that story shaped his understanding of what is necessary for a free … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Pathogenesis

Posted on June 23, 2024 by nathanalbright

Pathogenesis: A History Of The World In Eight Plagues, by Jonathan Kennedy This is a book that could have been so good, but ended up being so bad largely because of the author and his problems. With a Marxist perspective … Continue reading →

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Book Revie: Planta Sapiens

Posted on May 1, 2024 by nathanalbright

Planta Sapiens: The New Science Of Plant Intelligence, by Paco Calvo with Natalie Lawrence How are we to deal with the idea–much less the evidence–that plants exhibit a sort of intelligence that, though highly different than our own, is in … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Ends Of The World

Posted on April 9, 2024 by nathanalbright

The Ends Of The World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, And Our Quest to Understand Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions, by Peter Brannen It is perhaps too much to be hoped for that a book about prehistory, namely the evidence that exists … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Emotional Life Of Animals

Posted on April 6, 2024 by nathanalbright

The Emotional Life Of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, And Empathy–And Why They Matter, by Marc Bekoff I’m surprised why this book needs to exist in the first place. There is a wide gap between the understanding … Continue reading →

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Book Review: How The Zebra Got Its Stripes

Posted on April 5, 2024 by nathanalbright

How The Zebra Got Its Stripes: Darwinian Stories Told Through Evolutionary Biology, by Leo Grasset I have to admit that I found this book to be entertaining, but not perhaps in the way that the author would have enjoyed. This … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Genesis

Posted on April 3, 2024 by nathanalbright

Genesis: The Deep Origin Of Societies, by Edward O. Wilson Beware of the writer who says he (or she) has no dogma. Everyone has dogma, as it is a matter of worldview and not of formally religious belief. Since everyone … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Rise And Reign Of The Mammals

Posted on February 13, 2024 by nathanalbright

The Rise And Reign Of The Mammals: A New History: From The Shadow Of The Dinosaurs To Us, by Steve Brusatte Having read about the Cenozoic Period before–that is, the period between the cataclysmic end of the time of the Dinosaurs to … Continue reading →

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