[UAI] Slightly OT: X-Files 9-13, "Improbable"

From: William H. Hsu (bhsu@cis.ksu.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 09 2002 - 10:29:34 PDT

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    (A slightly off-topic or at least tangential post, but I thought I'd
    share this one.)

    Did anyone catch tonight's new episode of _The X-Files_ (9-13, the 6th
    to last)? I don't watch it regularly any more, but this time the title,
    IMPROBABLE, caught my eye:

    http://www.thex-files.com/episodes/season9/9x13.html

    As with the Spielberg/Kubrick film _AI_, the ways in which themes were
    presented seemed a bit cliché. On the other hand, it's rare enough to
    have causality, uncertainty, skewness, pattern recognition,
    (non)determinism, and predestination touched upon in a single TV show.

    Perhaps Burt Reynolds (or rather, Chris Carter) should be the next UAI
    banquet speaker? :-)

    -Bill

    Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.
    (Lucky is one who has been able to understand causality.)
                                    - Virgil, Georgics ii.490 

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