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King's College Chapel: beauty, art, profundity – but truth? Tom Thai, CC BY-SABy Simon Blackburn, University of Cambridge>
Until Alfred the Great managed to isolate and contain invaders from Scandinavia, Lyminge, a monastery in Kent, was on the front line of long-running Viking hostility. Lyminge endured repeated attacks for almost a century through effective defensive strategies, University of Reading archaeologists now say. Despite>
A new tool drawing on billions of uses of more than 20,000 words and diverse real-world texts claims to have found that human language is systematically biased, but not against things. It is instead biased toward safety and that has impacted everything from psychology claims to how Large Language Models (LLMs, colloquially>
Nobody likes to wait in line.
Whether you are sitting in your car waiting to reach the toll booths, on a
plane waiting to disembark along with the other passengers, or in a queue at
the ticket office, you may experience a range of feelings ranging from perplexity
(“What am I doing here?”) to impatience (“Why>
The Posthumous Memoir of Ignaz VenetzThis memoir was published by the Swiss Natural Sciences Society, shortly after the death of Ignaz Venetz, to honor his great contribution to science.For background information, please see part 1 of this article -The Posthumous Memoir Of Ignaz Venetz and Ignaz Venetz>
So the other day Julia Galef and I had the pleasure of interviewing mathematical cosmologist Max Tegmark for the Rationally Speaking podcast. The episode will come out in late January, close to the release of Max’s book, presenting his Mathematical Universe Hypothesis (MUH). We had a lively and interesting conversation>
