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Há 2 dias · Leslie Valiant is the T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University. He is also the recipient of the Turing Award and the Nevanlinna Prize for his foundational contributions to machine learning and computer science.
Há 2 dias · Today's guest, Leslie Valiant, has been a pioneer in understanding how computers can and do learn things about the world. And in his new book, The Importance of Being Educable , he pinpoints this ability to learn new things as the crucial feature that distinguishes us as human beings.
Há 1 dia · Sir David Glyndwr Tudor Williams (Emmanuel/Wolfson), Chancellor of Swansea University and Vice-chancellor of Cambridge University. James Wilson (St John's), Headmaster of Clifton College. Michael Young (Churchill), co-founder of The Open University. Tristram Stuart (Trinity), author and sustainability campaigner.
Há 1 dia · How do humans form 'fuzzy categories'? How does this all relate to essentialism? Is essentialism false? Or is it partially true? And how does this all relate to Critical Rationalism? Picking up where we left off last week, Bruce gets deeper into Douglas Hofstadter’s ideas on language and the mind and his assertion that “analogy-making lies at the heart of intelligence.” Bruce considers ...
Há 3 dias · He was 94. His death, in a nursing home, was confirmed by his stepson Leslie Blumenfeld. Mr. Perlin began working in the comic book industry in the late 1940s, but some of his greatest successes ...
Há 5 dias · After nearly fifty years as a full-time artist, Perlin went into semi-retirement in 1994, when Valiant was sold to Acclaim Entertainment. Three years later, he and Becky, still living in Brooklyn after all this time, moved to Florida, establishing their new home just down the road from Leslie Blumenfeld and his family.
Há 2 dias · String theory, the current leading candidate for a theory of quantum gravity as well as other particles and forces, doesn't connect directly to the world we see. It's possible that there is a large landscape of possible states of theory, with the hope that one of them represents our universe. The existence of a landscape implies the existence of a corresponding swampland -- universes that are ...
