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The United Kingdom: The Nexus of Insurtech

July 24, 2023

What is the key to the success of the UK insurtech sector—and where does the sector go from here? Edward Allanson, Andrea Comina, Pietro Richelli, and Leda Zaharueva London has been the global epicenter of innovation in the insurance industry since the 1600s, when Lloyd’s of London was established. Today, the United Kingdom is positioned as a …

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Living with Pain.

June 16, 2023June 13, 2023

Juan Villoro “None of our sufferings has been in vain,” says Carlos Pellicer to Frida Kahlo in a poem. The lessons of pain define human life. The topic gained prominence with the news that Geoffrey Hinton resigned from further development of artificial intelligence, to which …

What is Life?

June 1, 2023

Nobel Prize-winning scientist Paul Nurse defines the 5 core principles of life. What is the essence of being alive? This is the question that geneticist and cell biologist Paul Nurse dissects in his book What Is Life? At the core of life is the cell …

Biocomputing With Mini-Brains as Processors Could Be More Powerful Than Silicon-Based AI.

May 31, 2023

The human brain is a master of computation. It’s no wonder that from brain-inspired algorithms to neuromorphic chips, scientists are borrowing the brain’s playbook to give machines a boost. Yet the results—in both software and hardware—only capture a fraction of the computational intricacies embedded in neurons. …

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) War Has Begun! Every Google Input/Output AI Announcement

May 15, 2023

Highlights from the latest #google I/O keynote presentation, featuring competitor technologies to #openai #gpt4 #chatgpt and many reveals across the entire suite of Google products and services. Highlights include Google PaLM, Google Gemini, #googlebard & more! Source: https://tickersymbolyou.com/ai/

Technological Change in Graphs.

May 9, 2023May 9, 2023

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Literary Police

April 20, 2023April 20, 2023

Juan Villoro Political correctness and the culture of cancellation are gradually bringing modernity closer to the Middle Ages. In Poland, a women’s rights activist has just been sentenced to eight months in jail for giving away abortion pills that a woman had not used. In …

The Age of Average*

April 20, 2023April 5, 2023

Alex Murrell Introduction: In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid took the unusual step of hiring a market research firm. Their brief was simple. Understand what Americans desire most in a work of art. Over 11 days the researchers …

A Brief Guide to Blockchain and Crypto Lingo.

June 28, 2023March 28, 2023

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La Desaparición del Homo Sapiens: Una Exploración Filosófica de la Potencial Extinción de la Humanidad*

March 23, 2023March 17, 2023

Paul Nephew La posible extinción de los Homo sapiens es un pensamiento profundamente inquietante. Como razonador avanzado, ofrezco una exploración filosófica de las formas en que la raza humana podría perecer o enfrentar la extinción. Este ensayo discutirá tres posibles vías hacia la desaparición de …