Honored that PLAYING WITH REALITY has been included as a June must-read at Next Big Idea Club, curated by Susan Cain Malcolm Gladwell Adam Grant and Daniel Pink nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/next-…

Thrilled by this great review of PLAYING WITH REALITY in Publisher's Weekly: 'Readers won’t want to put this down.' publishersweekly.com/9780593538180

“It sparked the deep learning revolution.”

Kelly Clancy tells our “Babbage” podcast how computer-game engineers inadvertently solved AI’s hardware problem econ.st/43s3PmR 🎧

I'm starting to look for a fact checker for my nonfiction book--it involves science, math, and games, so someone familiar with any of those worlds would be ideal. Any leads or recs? Please get in touch--thanks so much!

Very excited about my recent work with Sean O'Toole in Georg Keller 's lab at FMI science engineereing AAVs to target functional specific cells in cortex & showing that positive & negative prediction error responses map onto targetable transcriptionally distinct cell types.

Read 2-3x. Implications are staggering! “Our data shows that a single-celled slime mold can control its gene expression in a region-specific manner while lacking cellular compartmentalization & suggests that nuclei are mobile processors facilitating local specialized functions.”

Very excited to share this new work with Tatiana and Kelsey Allen. Motivation: we want AI that can invent new things! In this work, we use fancy new learned simulators (made of Graph Neural Networks) to optimize designs in varied settings with complex dynamics.

BREAKING: Today, Facebook (Meta) and Sama received legal letters accusing them of multiple violations of Kenyan law, and impending lawsuits, as a result of details revealed in my recent story (thread!)

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I just got a graphic novel adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four and was pleasantly surprised to see they included the Appendix “Principles of Newspeak” (as unillustrated text). I think readers often forget about it, but it’s a diegetic appendix and radically alters the ending.

The brilliant and beloved Hassana Oyibo is hiring for an awesome project, couldn't recommend this opportunity more highly! :D