Over fifty authors joined to answer criticism in an article written by a single author. Scientific debates are not won by numbers but by rigour.(...)

We have so many friends around the world, for some dear friends it's the Holiday Season, for other dear friends it's not even a special time of the year. We are lucky to know you and wishing you a beautiful(...)

Will we be able to trust AI with the overseeing of large-scale critical(...)

There might a natural scale on the number of distinct objects our brain has evolved to perceive. Exposing it to numbers much higher than this could be a challenge to our brains. This might be relevant in the context of(...)

The 2024 Nobel of Physics exposed our long-held conspiracy as theoretical(...)

These three great volumes on “Time and Science” have finally been published. My article “Free Will and the Arrow of Time” is on Volume III. https://doi.org/10.1142/q0405 The summary: Can you have free will and physics? Yes you most(...)

What do newborn babies know, and why is artificial intelligence failing at being smart?(...)

On the technology's battle for our(...)

I feel I spend the majority of my time trying to convince others that I am an idiot, and yet the message does not go through. I am still asked to comment on this and that, under the assumption that I possess some kind of authority. I wonder if I should change(...)

This holiday season our family is grateful to more beautiful friends, humans and souls than we can count. So many of you made us smile throughout this year, made our days special, and brought us unique, unforgettable, treasured moments. Our friends around the(...)

Oxford Philosophy of Physics, April 17th 2023 Varieties of Indeterminism workshop, Swiss Alps, April 5th, 2023 Climate Change DOCUMENTARY (6 mins trailer) My Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics(...)

One woman expedition into the twin 6,000 meter mountains Lunger and Chamser Kangri in the Indian Himalayas, close to the Tibetan(...)

Brian Germain, the US-based skydive instructor, motivational speaker, author, canopy designer, and expert on the psychology of fear, who I have followed for the last 10+ years wrote a Facebook post today about teaching new generations of skydivers. (Full(...)

Sunday August 20, 2023 I think I solved the condensed matter non-reductionism question. Over the past few years I have been agonising over the bold, controversial, statements of famous condensed matter laureates (Anderson, Laughlin, Leggett). They claim that(...)

Searching for the emergence of AGI in the framework of well studied physics phenomena--condensed(...)

This is where I stand on arts produced ‘thethingwedontsaythenameof’ i.e. (learning models and associated fauna). (Part 2). In Valley crosser science I discussed scientific research produce by AI models. Here I describe the artistic counterpart:(...)

Jaron Lanier wrote a beautiful article for the New Yorker (may require subscription). In it he writes “If you work with virtual reality, you end up wondering what reality is in the first place. Over the years, I’ve toyed with one possible definition(...)

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July 3rd was one of the most magical days of my life.  A group of humans coming from all over gathered in Walloon Lake, Michigan, in sadness for the loss, over 6 months ago, of a dear, dear friend.  Not exactly the best of starts as magical days(...)

(Last updated: November 23rd, 2023) IntroductionWhy does a theoretical physicist start to chase and keep a close eye on AI technology in 2023? This is a short introduction of why I started this page. I cite many sources but all mistakes are my own, and all(...)

Just crossed over the Atlantic for the Irish wake of a dear, dear friend, who, many months after his passing, I still cannot understand is no longer here. At age 83, and counting so many feats (including having interviewed all US presidents since Nixon) he(...)

The Euclid satellite (European Space Agency – ESA + NASA) will launch soon in July. During the time that we are not busy with LLM’ing or any derivatives, Mark Neyrinck, Andrew Liddle and I have been keeping busy creating some other kinds(...)

A quantified estimate of the difference between learning and deep learning. A computer scientist who I highly respect said `Computer science is not a science. The clue is in the need to say science. No one says biology science, or physics science. It is just(...)

At this point this is where I stand on science and arts by ‘thethingwedontsaythenameof’.  Science Speaking as a scientist, `bots’ or whatever terminology we choose, will, in my opinion, very easily outperform human performance in(...)

It is said of Bill Forsythe‘s Artifact ballet that it changes your life. It has certainly changed mine, over the decades, every time I see it anew. Bill always updates his piece, every time he consents for a new company to perform it. And now, here is(...)

This is a very positive post to congratulate Tim Palmer, who delivered an extraordinary lecture on “The geometry of chaos” at the Royal Institution (RI) in London, last Friday. Earlier this year Tim Palmer, a Royal Society Research(...)

Image from `Attention is all you need’, Vaswani et al, arXiv:1706.03762. This is a question for the coding community, programmers and coders: “Would you classify the behaviour of a Large Language Model (LLM)(...)

How do you combine your love for the mountains with your love for your family?(...)

Academia is stale (arguably). The comforts of life-long job security do not particularly keep us on our toes, nor are particularly conducive of sharp and lucid thinking. Academics are the dormant ones, in my view. On the other hand those with one foot in the(...)

Permission to get in Puja Description: Permission from the mountain to get in. Puja. Please Ice Fall, please Lhotse Face, let me. I already have a knocked down knee so I am especially keen here. IN THE FUTURE WE WILL LEAD A THOUSAND LIVES! Join Live March 8th(...)

Bistari bistari! The Ngozumpa glacier on the way to Gokyo, another fantastic day in the Khumbu(...)