Ep 236: Max Velthoven, legal science, AI and ...

Comparing Kuhn and Popper on Quantum Theory: Here we go deeper into the differences between Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn's account of how science moves from one theory to another. David applies the theory set out in part 1 of this chapter to the specific case of quantum theory. Di ...  Show more

I take a look at these three papers: 1. https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2512.22471 2. https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.23752 3. https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.22473 Collectively titled "The Bayesian Attention Trilogy" along with some other material - in particular an interview with one of the au ...  Show more

Why do so many promising solutions in education, medicine, and criminal justice fail to scale up into great policy? And can a new breed of “implementation scientists” crack the code?

Growing up in the last years of the Cold War motivated Gabriele Jacobs to enter academia and play her part in building peaceful societies. Jacobs works at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands, where she researches the role artificial intelligence (AI) can play in publi ...  Show more

Casey Fiesler is an associate professor in the Department of Information Science (and Computer Science, by courtesy) at the University of Colorado Boulder.  She has a PhD in Human-Centered Computing from Georgia Tech and a JD from Vanderbilt Law School. This week she talks to ...

In this episode of Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn investigates published findings from the startup Sakana AI and its paper’s co-authors from the University of Oxford, the University of British Columbia and the Vector Institute in Toronto. These authors explore the potential of The ...  Show more