Very useful for attracting attention and making ideas, abstractions, and technical explanations concrete, analogy is a very effective tool for persuasion and clarification. But beware, some authors ...

Leonardo da Vinci is rightfully regarded as a genius for his fabulous paintings, medical discoveries, and original technologies, all described in Walter Isaacson’s wonderful biography. Isaacson ...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach inspired legions of computer scientists in 1979, but few were as inspired as Melanie Mitchell. After reading the 777-page tome, Mitchell, a high ...

Large language models are a class of AI algorithm that relies on a high number computational nodes and an equally large number of connections among them. They can be trained to perform a variety of ...