Tag: book review
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The threat of AI comes from inside the house
My other SIAM News contributions are necessarily math-focused. This one is a bit different: a review of a very good and funny popular-science book about machine learning and its failures. [ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write!…
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We are bound by symmetry
Physics is largely a matter of finding patterns in natural processes and translating that to mathematical expression. That’s a horribly oversimplified view, of course, but there’s no question that physics (and other branches of science) seeks to find symmetries. The huge successes of modern particle physics have largely arisen from identifying symmetries — and when…
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