How the science of last things drives modern AI On the Wednesday my stepmother died, I was delayed getting to the hospital by a dozen small miseries. The washing machine incontinently flooded the utility room floor; the first lunch I put together was inedible, so I had to throw it
Introduction At the start of Careless People, ex-Director of Public Policy Sarah Wynn-Williams relates how Mark Zuckerberg and the rest of the Facebook senior leadership team got into the kind of predicament usually associated with nerds in 1980s teen comedies. Zuckerberg and team are invited to a formal dinner, but
One of the strangest things about our current moment is the seemingly abrupt right turn of the tech industry in support of the Trump administration’s authoritarian project. This is especially unsettling for Irish people, long used to being the affable middleman between a welcoming America and a more culturally
An Oppenheimer moment for software engineering Thirty years ago, my friend S– told me in the schoolyard that he’d been channel-flipping and had come across the strangest thing: a documentary, in French, about a French electronic musician whose single aim it was to deconstruct music, gradually stripping back and