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Don't know how other authors feel, but seeing the first physical copy of your book, after years of looking at Word files and PDFs... Seems surreal. It's as if someone else wrote it... Anyway, this advance copy arrived in the mail. One more month to pub date

This is IMHO the most important video of 2024, about how big tech is racing toward relinquishing control of Earth to a new smarter species:

If quantum entanglement could arise in neurons, the phenomenon could explain how different parts of the brain work together. Now calculations show how nerve fibres can produce entangled particles. newscientist.com/article/244193…

How does this accord with an economic growth & high-skill employment strategy? The Labour Party axe £1.3bn for tech & AI including creation of exascale supercomputer at The University of Edinburgh theguardian.com/business/artic… eg. Consider ‘Greening AI’: institute.global/insights/clima…

John Steinbeck's 6 rules for the writer.

If you missed the 2023 Special Issue of Theory, Culture & Society (Theory, Culture & Society) on 'Foucault Before the Collège de France', which I edited with @DanieLorenzini and Orazio Irrera... journals.sagepub.com/toc/tcsa/40/1-2 All papers are open access or free access at the moment

A few thoughts about the writing of WHY MACHINES LEARN, for Next Big Idea Club :-) nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/get-e…

Automating Communication in the Digital Society - special Issue Sage Media & Comm edited Christian Katzenbach @[email protected] & Christian Pentzold | journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/26/9

Journal of Visual Art Practice, the leading venue for art practitioners to publish! Newsletter available via LinkedIn: Subscribe to get updates on the latest issues of the journal | linkedin.com/pulse/sunil-ma…

“Columbo is, in the words of one criminal, ‘a sly little elf [who] should be sitting under your own private little toadstool.’” —J. W. McCormack go.nybooks.com/4cNtYzw

‘[T]oposes could allow computers to move beyond … data […] AI could begin to identify objects more like we do – through a deeper “semantic” understanding of what [something] is’ The Guardian on hermit mathematician Grothendieck | theguardian.com/science/articl…

#ZooTV U2 was #TikTok before there was #TikTok | The audience is an examiner, but a distracted one… vm.tiktok.com/ZGeKcTW6m/

ICYMI: Martin Savransky, 'Problems All the Way Down' - this introductory article lays the groundwork for a generative conceptualisation of problems. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

New report: ‘Arts For Us All’ The Fabian Society, including ideas such as a ‘universal library card’ (membership assumed not applied for; given to all citizens at birth). fabians.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

Hidden traces of humanity: what AI images reveal about our world | #Art |The Guardian⁩ theguardian.com/news/2024/oct/…

Wrestling with #Trump : Donald Trump ‘wrestled’ his way through the #ElectionUSA2024 campaign, while the Democrats were boxing (clever). Must the Left now learn to wrestle (itself)? More on Medium: medium.com/@s.manghani/wr…

Unauthorized ‘David Attenborough’ AI voice goes viral, reported ⁦Ars Technica⁩ | Technically it is not possible to copyright style, see: ‘AI, Music, Style: Can there be too much culture?’ medium.com/electronic-lif… arstechnica.com/information-te…

I've mentioned before how much I admire Anil Ananthaswamy book, #WhyMachinesLearn. He nicely explains the probability of the #MontyHallProblem (to win a car behind 1 of 3 doors!). Try my online version. See how the probabilities play out: claude.site/artifacts/8be9…

Blogpost Link: blog.sav.phd/p/on-optimal-b… Github Link: github.com/trsav/bookshelf Thanks to Sunil Manghani for hosting me at the The Alan Turing Institute - what started as a straightforward stop to help draft a proposal, spawned... whatever this book optimization system is.