Assorted Braids

A sonder of sundry & serendipitous articles I surfaced while diving for one totally unrelated article. A braid emerges between the law of large numbers, the tragedy of math, the magic of abstract intuition and the pitfalls of application.

• David v Goliath AI Edition
• The Bitter Lesson

• A Mathematician’s Lament
• A Mathematician’s Apology

• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data
• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks

• Apple Keeps calling 911
• Use ChatGPT on your own files