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Here is a question that I think about a lot.
The big AI/math news is the release today of the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics. It’s an excellent attempt to identify the new threats to the intellectual culture of the mathematics community and begin a...
Below is a guest post by Robert Shackleton: Peter Dodds and coauthors have recently published research that proposes a significant shift in the essence-of-meaning framework, which traces its lineage back to Charles Osgood’s initial...
"Like good poetry, this song is slick, shimmering, heavy, metal, and reflective."
It can be tough when your mind is blank but you still want to write, just remember that as long as there's willing, you'll never be 'phoning it in'.
David Tierney Under Review:Radiant Star. Ann Leckie. Orbit, May 2026. Ann Leckie’s multi-award-winning Imperial Radch trilogy holds a special place as one of my favorite SF works, and Radiant Star, a standalone novel set in the same...
Byung-Chul books always have a high signal-to-noise ratio. His reasoning goes to the point, without wasting time on anecdotes or stories to illustrate the topic. The Transparency Society is no exception. The author denounces transparency...
Here's the list from last month (history books published here in the UK in hardback): only nine but a wide range of topics. A couple I am curious about are: This Little World: A New History of Tudor...