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Re:How Judea Pearl Became One of AI's Sharpest Critics by abalaji on Saturday May 19, 2018 @10:11PM (#17110798)
I might be wrong but x -> y (read as x implies y) is something taught in discrete mathematics classes. I'm not too sure what he means by mathematics does not have notation for causality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_conditional
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Re:How Judea Pearl Became One of AI's Sharpest Critics by bsaul on Sunday May 20, 2018 @12:08AM (#17111161)
A barometer changing implies the storm is coming. It doesn’t however causes the storm to come.
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