Antonio (Tony) Padilla is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist at the University of Nottingham. He serves as the Associate Director of the Nottingham Centre of Gravity, and in 2016, Tony shared the Buchalter Cosmology Prize for his work on the cosmological constant. Tony is also a star of the Numberphile YouTube channel, where his videos … Continue reading Antonio Padilla | Fantastic Numbers, Naturalness, and Anthropics in Physics

Boaz Barak is a professor of computer science at Harvard University, having previously been a principal researcher at Microsoft Research and a professor at Princeton University. His research interests span many areas of theoretical computer science including cryptography, computational complexity, and the foundations of machine learning. Boaz serves on the scientific advisory boards for Quanta … Continue reading Boaz Barak | Cryptography: The Art of Mathematical Secrecy

I had a nice discussion with Robert Wright on his podcast Nonzero on the technical workings of AI aimed at a nontechnical audience. We go into the details about transformers (the architecture underlying models like ChatGPT), aimed both at a high level understanding as well as going into the weeds of the internal mechanisms. Along … Continue reading How Does AI Work?