<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Gradient and Reason</title><description>On machine knowledge &amp; philosophical loss. Computational essays integrating machine learning, analytics, and epistemology.</description><link>https://gradient-and-reason.vercel.app/</link><item><title>Causal Ghosts</title><link>https://gradient-and-reason.vercel.app/essays/causal-ghosts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://gradient-and-reason.vercel.app/essays/causal-ghosts/</guid><description>On counterfactual inference, moral responsibility, and the irreducible uncertainty in what never happened.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Prediction Is Not Understanding</title><link>https://gradient-and-reason.vercel.app/essays/prediction-is-not-understanding/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://gradient-and-reason.vercel.app/essays/prediction-is-not-understanding/</guid><description>Why our most successful systems may still know nothing — and how empirical code uncovers the structural gap</description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Hallucination and the Lie</title><link>https://gradient-and-reason.vercel.app/essays/the-hallucination-and-the-lie/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://gradient-and-reason.vercel.app/essays/the-hallucination-and-the-lie/</guid><description>Why language models cannot lie, why they cannot help but bullshit, and how the mathematics of next-token prediction decouples testimony from the witness.</description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Topography of Loss</title><link>https://gradient-and-reason.vercel.app/essays/the-topography-of-loss/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://gradient-and-reason.vercel.app/essays/the-topography-of-loss/</guid><description>Navigating high-dimensional latent spaces as a metaphor for human memory, grief, and machine unlearning.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>