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For many years I wrote the blog Information Processing on Google's Blogspot. I've recently moved it to Substack.
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Effort News and AI-Driven Journalism with Brian Chau – Manifold episode #121 (opens the original)
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Brian Chau is a mathematician, machine learning specialist, and the founder of Effort News, an independent media outlet focused on data-first, document-led investigative journalism.<a href="http://Brian Chau is a mathematician, machine learning specialist, and the founder of Effort News, an independent media outlet focused on data-first, document-led investigative journalism. https://www.effort.news/ https://x.com/brianchau57 Chapter Markers: (00:00) - Intro (03:14) - Network School Fallout (14:
The Continuum in the Machine: Lean In (opens the original)
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The following article was produced from a conversation with Opus-5 and Qwen-3.8-Max, motivated by the importance of Lean (formal theorem-proving language) to AI-assisted mathematics, my own finitist sympathies, and an old article I wrote on physics and the continuum: https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2021/08/finitism-and-physics.htmlFrom a finitist perspective: how can the finitary methods of Lean reason about the continuum (e.g., to do mathematical analysis)?The Continuum in the Machine: Lean InLea
Machine God: Hsu, Greer, Huang – Manifold #120 (opens the original)
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Machine God is a feature-length AI documentary film, created by Steve Hsu, John Greer, and Lei Huang. This episode discusses the film's creation and content.Audio-only version and transcript:https://www.manifold1.com/episodes/machine-god-hsu-greer-huang-120Machine God IMDB pageJohn Greer
Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) and Machine God AI Documentary (opens the original)
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RSI section from our AI documentary Machine God — Enjoy!The next threshold is Recursive Self-Improvement: the moment when AI can improve itself without human assistance.For decades this sounded like science fiction. Intelligence explosion scenarios imagined a system rewriting its own code, becoming smarter, then using that new intelligence to make still better versions of itself. But the idea looks less remote now that AI contributes directly to frontier science. In mathematics, recent systems h
How to Build a Research Institute: Thomas Fink of the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences – Manifold #119 (opens the original)
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Dr. Thomas Fink is an Anglo-American physicist, author, and entrepreneur who serves as the founding Director of the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences (LIMS).He studied physics at Caltech, where he won the Fisher Prize, and earned his PhD at Cambridge University. His research focuses on statistical physics, combinatorics, and evolvable systems, using these tools to gain insights into physical and biological systems.In 2011, Dr. Fink founded LIMS, the UK’s first independent research centr
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