Sep 25Speculation on Next Ed Sheeran Album Divides Mathematical CommunityPrinceton, New Jersey The amazing success of + (2011), ⨉ (2014), ÷ (2017), = (2021), and now — (2023) has the mathematical community wondering “What should the next Ed Sheeran album be called?” While many fans expect it to be called Autumn Variations (following Aniftos, 2023), mathematicians point out that…Mathematics4 min readMathematics4 min read
Mar 4Chat GPT — Fluently True, Fluently False, Here to StayÆlfgifu of York was the daughter of Ordgar, Earl of Devon, and she was also the sister of Ordgar, Earl of Devon. Chat GPT, the AI system that produced the sentence above a couple of months ago, is a tremendous achievement, and the most impressive piece of language engineering I’ve…AI9 min readAI9 min read
Feb 25, 2021Surge Pricing, Artificial Intelligence, and ResponsibilityOn my first work trip to Jakarta 14 January 2016 for Grab, multiple terrorist bombs exploded a couple of miles from the GrabBike office where I had just arrived. People were fleeing cafes and restaurants around the attack site. My new colleagues were shaken, glad to be safe, looking to…Surge Pricing5 min readSurge Pricing5 min read
Jan 28, 2020AI blooper— 1080 Particles in the Universe?Using this as an interesting place to share “AI bloopers” and hopefully as a not-too-obnoxious way to file a “bug report” in the hope that some friend at Google might know where to route this to. I happened to be looking up the estimated number of particles in the universe…AI3 min readAI3 min read
