Theory

TDS Newsletter: The Theory and Practice of Using AI Effectively

Never miss a brand new edition of , our weekly newsletter featuring a top-notch choice of editors’ picks, deep dives, community news, and more. Once we encounter a brand new technology — say, LLM applications — a...

How AGI became probably the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time

That’s a compelling—even comforting—thought for many individuals. “We’re in an era where other paths to material improvement of human lives and our societies appear to have been exhausted,” Vallor says.  ...

The Theory of Universal Computation: Bayesian Optimality, Solomonoff Induction & AIXI

In a seminal but underappreciated book titled , Marcus Hutter attempted a mathematical formulation of universal artificial intelligence, shortened to AIXI. This text goals to make AIXI accessible to data scientists, technical enthusiasts and...

The Crucial Role of Color Theory in Data Evaluation and Visualization

, I discovered myself wondering why some dashboards immediately grabbed my attention, while others just felt flat. A giant a part of that magic is color. As basic because it sounds, it plays a...

Latest Study Uses Attachment Theory to Decode Human-AI Relationships

A groundbreaking study published in titled “Using attachment theory to conceptualize and measure the experiences in human-AI relationships” sheds light on a growing and deeply human phenomenon: our tendency to emotionally connect with...

Beyond Logic: Rethinking Human Thought with Geoffrey Hinton’s Analogy Machine Theory

For hundreds of years, human considering has been understood through the lens of logic and reason. Traditionally, people have been seen as rational beings who use logic and deduction to grasp the world. Nevertheless,...

😲 Quantifying Surprise — A Data Scientist’s Intro To Information Theory — Part 1/4: Foundations

Through the telecommunication boom, Claude Shannon, in his seminal 1948 paper¹, posed a matter that may revolutionise technology:How can we quantify communication?Shannon’s findings remain fundamental to expressing information quantification, storage, and communication. These insights...

A causal theory for studying the cause-and-effect relationships of genes

By studying changes in gene expression, researchers find out how cells function...

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