Sun, Sep 11 at 12 PM CDT.
This is an invitation to the Annual General Meeting of the Cryonics Institute & the Immortalist Society.
The Cryonics Institute’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held on Sunday, September 11th 2022 from 3:00pm to 6:30pm at the Infinity Hall & Sidebar 16,650 E. 14 Mile Rd, Fraser, MI 48,026 (USA). For more information visit www.infinityhallsidebar.com
Or call (586) 879‑6157.
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April, 2022
Sean Carroll (Caltech and Santa Fe Institute)
https://simons.berkeley.edu/events/causality-program-externa…-institute.
Causality.
Abstract:
Discovering a system’s causal relationships and structure is a crucial yet challenging problem in scientific disciplines ranging from medicine and biology to economics. While researchers typically adopt the graphical formalism of causal Bayesian networks (CBNs) to induce a graph structure that best describes these relationships, such unsupervised score-based approaches can quickly lead to prohibitively heavy computation burdens.
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The team summarizes their main contributions as:
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