Thirty years ago, if a parent believed the moon landing was faked, their influence on a child’s worldview was constrained. It might have come up during dinner conversations or through a library book or a late-night TV or radio segment. That influence, while potentially significant, was limited in reach and repetition. Today, the same belief,…

Edmund Gettier wrote a page paper that was published in Analysis in 1963 that kinda threw a philosophical wrench into what we thought we knew about knowledge. But in tech, Gettier bugs are a different kind of annoying and maybe just as philosophical if I think about it. A Gettier bug is a situation where a system…

Efficiency is not an inherent quality of machines, just as it isn’t of people. A machine is a tool, a static object, incapable of being efficient in and of itself. Efficiency arises from the processes that are designed and executed through the machine, much like how a person’s actions define their effectiveness. Labeling a machine…

Based on the investigation and statements from dozens of people and the killers themselves, Prosecutor Amanda K. Spies and Assistant Prosecutor Robert C. Urban Jr. on Wednesday, in the wake of Tuesday’s sentencing of the fourth and final defendant, Amanda Sickels Bowditch, related the horrific story investigators have pieced together. Justin Stephan, Chad Bowditch and…