Welcome to 2016, mate...!

Japan’s New Appetite for Risk Lures Venture Investors to Tokyo

“If we had started Sakana AI in the Bay Area, it would have been a strategic blunder, because we would have looked more like everyone else. It would have been very hard to differentiate.”

theinformation.com/articles/japan…

Thank you for the kind words Ananyo Bhattacharya! Your biography of Von Neumann was -- funny enough -- one of the books I thought about writing post-Shannon. Delighted, though, that you beat me to the punch!

So true. You can say anything in a powerpoint. And if the plan is intricate, it will tickle people's cerebrums and they'll love it even more.

But when it reaches IRL, theory smashes against reality. The consultants are gone and you have to clean up the mess - and change course.

👍🎉

Just arrived! The new Roger Penrose biography by Patchen Barss…
Out on 12 November!

Publication day (in the UK)! Go! Buy! Look how pretty it is! Buy! You can't afford NOT to! It's so pretty! Also the content is good but IT'S SO PRETTY geni.us/EIPBook

Chess is such a tough and brutal game at the highest level, one mistake and all that hard work is for naught. Incredibly exciting candidates tournament & huge congrats to Gukesh D - it was an honour to partner with you at the London Chess Classic Pro-biz Cup last year! I'll be…

He strove to resuscitate the dead art
Of poetry; to maintain “the sublime”
In the old sense. Wrong from the start—
[...]
There died a myriad [...]
Quick eyes gone under earth’s lid,
For two gross of broken statues,
For a few thousand battered books.
-- Ezra Pound, 1920

He strove to resuscitate the dead art
Of poetry; to maintain “the sublime”
In the old sense. Wrong from the start—
[...]
There died a myriad [...]
Quick eyes gone under earth’s lid,
For two gross of broken statues,
For a few thousand battered books.
-- Ezra Pound, 1920

Indeed! I hereby nominate Jonathan Haidt for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Massive shoutout to our ace art director Dario Verrengia, so talented and so zen (except when he texted about an early draft of cover art: ‘is this A BIT pigeon?’ 😂)

Amazing that a chip bricked in 46-yr-old Voyager I, preventing it from sending data, and NASA figured out how to split up and reallocate its functions to other hardware, sending code 15 billion miles away (45 hours round trip!)--and Voyager's back online. blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/0…

So it's not just me. It's every parent to every teenager every day.

Just came back from attending the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture at Stanford, with the incredible Yossi Klein Halevi. bayes.cs.ucla.edu/DPF/Daniel-Pea…
Thanks to all my Palo Alto colleagues for attending the lecture and reinforcing our conviction in a world shaped by dialogue and…

'in reading a book we are entering a trust relationship with the writer. That a small crew of tech bosses have squandered the Promethean act and freely given away the gift of language to machines profoundly undermines that historic trust' ht Carissa Véliz theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

New event: How will AI impact “the year of elections”?

Join us for panel discussions w/ Diane Coyle Prof Gina Neff Tom Mason Dr Kerry McInerney (Mackereth) Kenneth Cukier Henry Ajder & Walter M. Pasquarelli

Tuesday 21 May, 18:00, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge

Book your free ticket: bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/events/how-wil…

I wrote #beginner level book teaching Deep Learning - its goal is to be the easiest intro possible

In the book, each lesson builds a neural component *from scratch* in #NumPy

Each *from scratch* toy code example is in the Github below

#100DaysOfMLCode

github.com/iamtrask/Grokk…

To say Canada’s new proposed Online Harms Act is Orwellian is unfair to Orwell. It is worse. I channel the spirit of Christopher Hitchens in this piece to argue against it. dailysceptic.org/2024/04/21/the…

Make sure to review Kant’s rules for dinner parties so that you’re ready to celebrate his 300th birthday on Monday