Despite their centrality to the scientific enterprise, both nature of variables and relation inductive inference remain obscure. I suggest that should be viewed as equivalence classes sets physical states mapped representations (often real numbers) in a structure preserving fashion, argue most introduced expand degrees freedom terms which we describe world can seen products an algorithmic first...

The Journal of the Postgraduate Institute Medicine (JPGIM) is an open access, peer-reviewed, biannual journal published by (PGIM) University Colombo (UOC), Sri Lanka. JPGIM aims to publish articles relevant clinicians, policymakers, and researchers on topics relating practice medicine, medical education, professionalism, integrity, ethics research enterprise. has been in publication since 2014 ...

Existing norms for scientific communication are rooted in anachronistic practices of bygone eras, making them needlessly inefficient. We outline a path that moves away from the existing model of scientific communication to improve the efficiency in meeting the purpose of public science – knowledge accumulation. We call for six changes: (1) full embrace of digital communication, (2) open access ...

Computation has rapidly grown in the last 50 years so that in many scientific areas it is the dominant partner in the practice of science. Unfortunately, unlike the experimental sciences, it does not adhere well to the principles of the scientific method as espoused by for example, the philosopher Karl Popper. Such principles are built around the notions of deniability and reproducibility. Alth...

From prehistoric times, humans have evolved as pattern seeking and storytelling species. While the capacity to find patterns and infer meanings had obvious advantages for survival, the brain is not always successful in distinguishing meaningful and meaningless patterns. In fact, "pattern finding" and "order seeking" mechanisms form the basis for nearly all existing myths, superstitions, cultura...