Ananyo Bhattacharya

@Ananyo

Chief science writer @London_Inst. 'The Man from the Future', on the unparalleled influence of John von Neumann, available everywhere. For my substack see link.

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Ananyo Bhattacharya
@Ananyo
Jun 8
Our @Nature comment this week on the use of AI in maths and theoretical physics - and why the community should embrace it! Authors @London_Inst & @GoogleDeepMind. First draft 8 months ago but edited many times as the field steamed ahead! Free-to-read link at the end of 🧵1/
Ananyo Bhattacharya
@Ananyo
6h
Meanwhile… in England 🤷
Ananyo Bhattacharya
@Ananyo
8h
Incredible. Fertility is collapsing worldwide but much more so in poor and lower-middle-income countries. Income per capita and fertility are now positively correlated within OECD countries—soon true globally. Richer, more educated people are having more babies than poorer ones.
Ananyo Bhattacharya
@Ananyo
8h
Incredible. Fertility is collapsing worldwide but much more so in poor and lower-middle-income countries. Income per capita and fertility are now positively correlated within OECD countries—soon true globally. Richer, more educated people are having more babies than poorer ones.
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde
@JesusFerna7026
Aug 18
Last week I posted a new paper with Patrick Norrick: “Terra Incognita: The Economics of a Shrinking World.” We chose the title deliberately. No society in history has experienced the fertility levels now seen in South Korea, China, Thailand, Colombia, Chile, and many other
Ananyo Bhattacharya
@Ananyo
9h
Homework scores once predicted exam performance; now those who score highest are, perversely, more likely to do worse in exams.
Ananyo Bhattacharya
@Ananyo
20h
“The world is about to run on computer code that nobody has read,” says Ken Ono. “AI is here and we can no longer look away—proof formalization is a test bed for solving what I think is the most important challenge we will face from AI.”