Chief science writer @London_Inst. 'The Man from the Future', on the unparalleled influence of John von Neumann, available everywhere. For my substack see link.ananyo.substack.com LondonJoined February 2009
“My own opinion is that the most badly needed improvements in drug discovery are in the exact areas that are most resistant to machine learning techniques. By which I mean target selection and predictive toxicology.”
Balanced view from an industry insider! science.org/content/blog-p…
“Without a doubt, there are loads of string theories that have nothing to do with nature,” Anderson said. “The question is: Are there any that do have something to do with it?” quantamagazine.org/ai-starts-to-s…
@Ananyo@npparikh Based on my research, it happened exactly this way! Shannon's also not given over to exaggeration, so I trust both his characterization and later writing on it. (Attaching the relevant except from A MIND AT PLAY)
🧵I love reading biographies on famous scientists and mathematicians and “The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann” by @Ananyo is one of my favorite biographies so far. With most of these books I find myself reading a lot of supplementary material because
Just in! ‘Everything Is Predictable’ by @TomChivers featuring a fistful of endorsements… including mine! Everything you ever wanted to know about Bayes’ Theorem but didn’t know you were supposed to ask.
A very rich, rewarding read… weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/tom-chi…
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27K Followers 267 FollowingAuthor, writer & broadcaster, mostly about science & its interactions with society. Books include Bright Earth, Critical Mass, The Modern Myths, How Life Works.
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"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty."
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