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Ajdina Halilovic is a science writer and researcher based in London, UK. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a ...

La Géométrie, a short appendix that appeared in Descartes’ famous Discourse on the Method, laid the foundations of analytic ...

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An exploration of how artificial intelligence is changing what it means to do science and math, and what it means to be a ...

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Neural networks power today’s AI boom. To understand them, all we need is a map, a cat and a few thousand dimensions.

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Hallucinations / A common (but controversial) term of art for undesirable outputs produced by generative AI, such as when ...