I binge-watched the six-part documentary “Can’t get you out of my head” by Adam Curtis on the BBC last week. It was exhilarating for all sorts of reasons, some that I would have to go through quite a bit of introspection to properly explain. …

More thinking and debating is migrating to the ability of artificial intelligence at deriving “meaning” now that Turing tests are having to be made harder and harder to trick man-made intelligence into errors of realism. We start talking about the Chinese Box paradox rather than dwell on performance benchmarks alone…

When life gives you lemons you make lemonade! Well… that is if you adhere to the belief that what I made is actually akin to lemonade :) What happened was that I wanted to create an online machine learning agent with some notion of memory of where it is in…

In a previous piece, I talked about causality as being the ultimate tool in intelligence. I wanted to revisit this in the context of multiple intelligences competing to reach some end goal. Financial markets are prime examples of this. …

Civility is the thin veneer that holds animal instincts from engulfing civilisation and dragging us into a Mad Max world. Civic society requires shared values and mass-recognition of these shared values. …

UPDATE Since I last looked at the dataset, the way the timestamps are now being reflected by the UK gov has changed. (See the charts are the bottom of https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/#local-authorities). Instead of timestamping by reporting date of newly confirmed cases, the UK gov is now reporting by specimen date. This…

This piece is a continuation of my views on efficiency with respect to civilisation and inter-group interactions. I am explicitly setting out capitalism as an inescapable framework that dynamically regulates the extent of cooperation and of competition between entities living in a system. …

My thoughts and ideas these days are heavily influenced by my work in the field of machine learning. Some commonalities have started to become apparent between real-life occurrences and the abstract situations that emerge in the state-spaces and the generative processes within my algorithms as they interact with data. …