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| | Before this week's post: a former colleague of mine from CEA Paris-Saclay, Sylvain Ribault, posted a dialogue last week presenting different perspectives on academic publishing. One of the highlights of my brief time at the CEA were the times I got to chat with Sylvain and others about the future forms academia might take. He...
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| | There's a famous parable about a group of blind men encountering an elephant for the very first time. The first blind man, who had his hand on the elephant's side, said that it was like an enormous wall. The second blind man, wrapping his arms around the elephant's leg, exclaimed that surely it was a...
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| | Boris Tsirelson (or Cirel'son, or ?, or ?) is an Israeli (born Russian) mathematician currently at Tel-Aviv university. Here is the picture from his Wikipedia entry: he has such an incredible stare, he irresistibly reminds me of Orson Welles (picture below). Two great magicians! Tsirelson worked on the mathematical foundations of nonlocality in the early...
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| Many would reckon that Machine Learning is now the new oil these days. And I would most likely support that. Personally I got exposed to the world of ML in m...