Now, Erik has scribbled out a few more calculations, and come up with a whole new theory of dreams. The paper is “The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization“, it’s posted over on arXiv, and it’s not only fascinating: it’s accessible. This is not something you ...
It increasingly looks like the cause of high construction costs in the English-speaking world is the trend of the privatization of the state since the 1980s. Instead of public planning departments, there is growing use of consultants. This trend is intensifying, for example with increasing use o...
Megaprojects of this scale are historically risky and expensive, prone to massive cost overruns. According to an authoritative analysis of 258 massive transportation projects by one of the world's foremost authorities on the subject, Bent Flyvbjerg, a Danish professor at the University of Oxford, 9...