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About Astrological Research

1/16/2017

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Astrological research is presently a tough row to hoe.

There is no money in it, and my clients actually don’t like it.

​They ask me why I do it. These are intelligent well-educated people, but they tell me they come to astrology because they are sick of science. ("One year coffee is good for you, one year it is bad for you…")

The work of astrological science is lonely, scary, and frustrating and really tough on me physically.

I do it instead out of love, out of passion, out of honestly wanting to know the answer.

That is why I say it is a hobby for me. I think that is a good thing.

I went to college full-time at fifteen, actually being able to emancipate based on my scholarship stipend. Some of my friends were getting PhDs at that age from schools like Harvard and Princeton.

One thing united us in order to work so hard and give up so much, so young. We all shared an immense personal love for science, actually being in love with Mother Nature Herself.

Then, 5 or 10 years later, we all made it into the profession, the industry, of science, and we almost all dropped out.

Research into fundamental astrology returns my gaze back to Mother Nature, and it is that worship which is really why I do it, and yet I certainly do keep all the numbers real. You must, to get really close to Her.

So, even though I do a particular methodological approach which is very big data and AI oriented, using pretty advanced mathematics, I do it for intensely personal reasons, and actually as an artistic expression, I feel. 

The methodologies that I would like to see at large in the future of astrology research would be ones that would speak to our fact-based culture as a whole, and maybe along the way, some money could be sent toward astrological researchers, because a need of society at large is met, some pressing practical societal need is answered.

Richard Feynman once said: “People who wish to analyse nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding.”

So, I think we have to increase our mathematics chops, even if we are doing hermeneutics, perhaps learning from all the good work happening in the digital humanities in the past decade.

We also have an opportunity to go beyond what even regular science provides society, and that is to do our work with love, for love.

It is not just an opportunity, it is a necessity, for astrology is and we are psychology and medicine and football games and politics and money and families, everything altogether, and that is love. I know it is.

Remarks prepared for The Kepler Conference, 2017.
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Mercury Retrograde, Amazon Review Misspellings, and Artificial Intelligence

1/10/2017

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Click to see presentation.
Click on image to see the presentation from The Kepler Conference for Astrological Research, Jan 2017.

[Edit: a crazy further reduction in RMSE was achieved by finally using a neural net. The quick write-up of that can be seen here.

A full journal article was just approved for publication (March 2018). It will be referenced in the bibliography.]

To hear the audio of the misspellings, download the original file below and mouse over on the second red graph.
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