Brain & Transformers Work The Same Way
Association Is All You Need: Most intelligence is pattern matching and you can do a lot of really good pattern matching if you have a hierarchy of associative memories…
Sunday Poem By: Tsoai‐talee. ‘I am, Therefore, Therefore I am.’
The Delight Song of Tsoai-Talee I am a feather on the bright skyI am the blue horse that runs in the plainI am the fish that rolls, shining, in the
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Love and Let Die: Ian Fleming ‘The Complete Man’
Behind the shaken-not-stirred-martini-drinking James Bond, there was Ian Fleming, whose real life was marked by glamour and tragedy in equal measure. Ian Fleming biography by Nicholas Shakespeare: Pico Iyer reviews
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People-first Leadership, and Serving a Greater Purpose
Find the North Star, the direction. To find the North Star, Resilience and Conviction are needed: “It’s my fault. And for that, I am culpable, I am liable, and I
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Freed From the Jockey, Horse Wins the Race –and Freedom
WATCH how a trained race horse snaps ties from his jockey, and runs the race all by himself…races to the finishing line and wins!
The Power of Creative Mathematical Thinking
Math That Connects Where We’re Going to Where We’ve Been: Recursion Builds Bridges Between Ideas From Across Different Math Classes. Patrick Honner in Quanta: Say you’re at a party with
Western Christianity Triumphed Not By Destiny But Accident
In the beginning there were many different sons of God John Gray at The New Statesman: In 1950, while travelling in the southern marshlands of Iraq, the explorer Wilfred Thesiger
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Saturday Poem: Until the Roof Falls In
The crack is moving down the wall,Defective plaster isn’t all the cause.We Must remain until the roof falls in. It’s mildly cheering to recallThat every building has its little flaws.The
Talking Point: “Indian Civilization is an Idea But Also an Enigma”
Karan Thapar at The Wire interviews Namit Arora, the scriptwriter and anchor of the series on Indian history called ‘Indians: A Brief History of a Civilization’, which covers a sweep
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Conversation: Who Leaked the Judges Letter?
Syed Ahmad Hassan Shah, Advocate Supreme Court at Dawn News discussion the aftermath of six Pakistani judges’ shocking letter to the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC). The letter highlighted attempts to
Why a New Adaptation of ‘The Master and Margarita’ is Setting Russian Society Aflame
Cameron Manley at Literary Hub: One of the most celebrated lines from Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita emerges from the lips of the devil himself. “Manuscripts don’t burn,” Woland, the
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Malaysia Does Not View China as a Threat: Analyst Mahmud Ali at Davos of the East
“Unlike many other countries, the Malaysian PM’s perspective is so very different”, Dr. Syed Mahmud Ali notes at The Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Annual Conference 2024 held in south
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