Some news: I\u2019ll be speaking at SXSW 2027 in Austin (15\u201321 March), in the Tech & AI programme.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow Do We Know What We Know About the Universe & the World?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Ever since Thomas Bayes, we\u2019ve known we can never be completely certain of anything, but probability gives us the tools to learn from experience anyway. That\u2019s true of our grandest theories of the cosmos, and of our everyday beliefs. The talk draws on my book, The Random Universe<\/em>.<\/p>\n If you\u2019ll be in Austin, come along and ask questions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some news: I\u2019ll be speaking at SXSW 2027 in Austin (15\u201321 March), in the Tech & AI programme. \u201cHow Do We Know What We Know About the Universe & the World?\u201d Ever since Thomas Bayes, we\u2019ve known we can never be completely certain of anything, but probability gives us the tools to learn from experience … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-science"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1502,"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions\/1502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewjaffe.net\/microblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}