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(...)

I am part of a discussion collective of intellectuals brought together by Silicon Valley tech companies, jointly with companies in academic and scientific publishing. The discussion group is simply a town hall where members from very distinct academic and(...)

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(...)