The three horsemen of the machine learning apocalypse

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My colleague Patrick Riley from Google has a good piece in Nature in which he describes three very common errors in applying machine learni...

Infinite horizons; or why I am optimistic about the future

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The Doomsday Scenario, also known as the Copernican Principle, refers to a framework for thinking about the death of humanity. One can re...

Book review: The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

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The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson When the British army of regulars capture...
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Life And Death In New Jersey

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On a whim I decided to visit the gently sloping hill where the universe announced itself in 1964, not with a bang but with ambient, annoyin...
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Book review: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn

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The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn While a slightly academic and challenging read, this book (first pub...

Book review: The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America

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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America by Russell Shorto A...
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Book review: An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America

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An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America by Nick Bunker A highly illuminating, novel account of the lead-up to the Boston...

Computer simulations and the Universe

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There is a sense in certain quarters that both experimental and theoretical fundamental physics are at an impasse. Other branches of phys...
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