Understanding the unseen
Adam KucharskiMaking sense of a noisy, uncertain world with the author of 'The Rules of Contagion' and 'Proof'
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It’s been quite a month for AI in mathematical research.
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If you follow writerly people on Substack, you may well have seen discussion of a recent prize-winning short story that appeared in Granta magazine. Specifically, there has been speculation that the story was written with the help of AI.
I...
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Back in 2017, I attended a summit in Beijing hosted by some of the major UK and China funders and scientific academies. Some of my UK-based colleagues found it a rather deflating experience. While they were grinding out experiments with sma...
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Recently, there’s been a lot of focus on ‘tokenmaxxing’, where companies are encouraging people to use lots of AI, and people are bragging about how many AI tokens they are paying for as a result.
There have been stories of engineers using...
Things I've been thinking and reading recently
Some things I’ve been thinking about
A few weeks ago, an FT piece by Helen Pearson mentioned a trial of sturdier beer glasses to reduce violent attacks. This reminded me of another beer experiment:
Last month, I wrote about how it’s p...
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Mathematician/epidemiologist, co-founder of Wholesum, author of Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty. Bylines in Wired, FT, Guardian, Times, New Scientist.
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