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The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2018 The article puts forward a branching - style framework for the analysis of determinism and indeterminism of scientific theories, starting from the core idea that an indeterministic system is one whose present allows for more than one alternative possible future. We describe how a definition of determinism stated in terms of branching models supplements
Müller, Thomas, Placek, Tomasz
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Non-Determinism and the Lawlessness of Machine Learning Code [PDF]
Symposium on Computer Science and Law, 2022 Legal literature on machine learning (ML) tends to focus on harms, and thus tends to reason about individual model outcomes and summary error rates. This focus has masked important aspects of ML that are rooted in its reliance on randomness --- namely ...
A. F. Cooper +2 more
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A Survey on Parallelism and Determinism [PDF]
ACM Computing Surveys, 2022 Parallelism is often required for performance. In these situations an excess of non-determinism is harmful as it means the program can have several different behaviours or even different results.
L. Gonnord +3 more
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History Determinism vs. Good for Gameness in Quantitative Automata [PDF]
Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, 2021 Automata models between determinism and nondeterminism/alternations can retain some of the algorithmic properties of deterministic automata while enjoying some of the expressiveness and succinctness of nondeterminism.
Udi Boker, K. Lehtinen
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The No-Go Zone of Journalism Studies—Revisiting the Concept of Technological Determinism
Digital Journalism, 2023 This study aims to assess technological determinism in relation to interdisciplinarity in journalism studies. Based on a scoping review of articles published during the last decade in three influential scientific journals within the journalism studies ...
Ester Appelgren
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AI and the resurrection of Technological Determinism
Információs Társadalom, 2021 This paper elaborates on the connection between the AI regulation fever and the generic concept of Social Control of Technology. According to this analysis, the amplitude of the regulatory efforts may reflect the lock-in potential of the technology in ...
Mihály Héder
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Enchanted Determinism: Power without Responsibility in Artificial Intelligence
, 2020 Deep learning techniques are growing in popularity within the field of artificial intelligence (AI). These approaches identify patterns in large scale datasets, and make classifications and predictions, which have been celebrated as more accurate than ...
Alexander Campolo, K. Crawford
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Bedload transport: a walk between randomness and determinism. Part 1. The state of the art
Journal of Hydraulic Research, 2020 This paper outlines the various approaches used to calculate bedload transport. As bedload transport exhibits considerable spatial and temporal variations, computing the bedload transport rates and morphological changes experienced by streambeds is ...
C. Ancey
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Data Journalism Beyond Technological Determinism
Journalism Studies, 2021 Innovation in journalism became an important element to determine the current and future direction of the profession. Through incremental and cumulative transformations over time, because of many obstacles faced inside the newsrooms, journalism has ...
Mathias-Felipe de-Lima-Santos +1 more
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Determinism and General Relativity [PDF]
Philosophia Scientiæ, 2020 We investigate the fate of determinism in general relativity (GR), comparing the philosopher’s account with the physicist’s well-posed initial value formulations. The fate of determinism is interwoven with the question of what it is for a spacetime to be
C. Smeenk, C. Wüthrich
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