I spoke to Google DeepMind about their latest AI accomplishment, and to what extent this really constitutes a step towards general AI. (more…)

Major League Baseball is entering uncharted waters with the start of its COVID-abridged season today. Nobody’s really sure if the 60-game season will even be able to get through the World Series without disruption by the pandemic’s spread. The folks at ... (more…)

Microsoft has built one of the top five publicly disclosed supercomputers in the world, with new infrastructure available to train very large AI models. (more…)

Left: Final output (Static + Dynamic), Middle: Static component, Right: Dynamic component... (more…)

The Dead Sea Scrolls are tangible evidence of the Bible’s ancient scribal culture. This study takes an innovative approach to palaeography—the study of ancient handwriting—as a new entry point to access this scribal culture. One of the problems of palaeog... (more…)