Shaping Futures
e-magazine of The Michael Dukakis Institute
Simpson’s paradox in Covid-19 case fatality rates: a mediation analysis of age-related causal effects
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic originates from a virus, referred to as the 2019 novel coronavirus, or as the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which induces the infectious disease […]
Decision-theoretic foundations for statistical causality
In a recent paper Decision-theoretic foundations for statistical causality, Dr. Philip Dawid...
Bye-bye Python. Hello Julia!
Which is why more and more programmers are adopting other languages — the top players being...
AI can’t solve this: The coronavirus could be highlighting just how overhyped the industry is
Professor Judea Pearl, UCLA, Turing Award, 2020 World Leader in AIWS Award. He is a mentor of...
Generalizing Experimental Results by Leveraging Knowledge of Mechanisms
Professor Judea Pearl, Chancellor’s Professor, UCLA, World Leader in AIWS Award recipient, and...
Causal Relational Learning paper
Professor Judea Pearl, Chancellor’s Professor of UCLA, father of Bayesian Networks, Cause and...
A different look at anti-coronavirus “death toll”
The West - sacrifices at the forefront of mankind The numbers of post-Wuhan casualties in the...
An AI Pioneer Wants His Algorithms to Understand the “Why”
Deep learning is good at finding patterns in reams of data, but can't explain how they're...
A.I. Versus the Coronavirus
A new consortium of top scientists will be able to use some of the world’s most advanced...