Anil Ananthaswamy

@anilananth

Sci journalist/TED speaker/MIT KSJ Fellow/Books: The Edge of Physics, The Man Who Wasn't There, Through Two Doors at Once / Mastodon: @[email protected]

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Anil Ananthaswamy
@anilananth
Jun 18, 2024
Don't know how other authors feel, but seeing the first physical copy of your book, after years of looking at Word files and PDFs... Seems surreal. It's as if someone else wrote it... Anyway, this advance copy arrived in the mail. One more month to pub date
Anil Ananthaswamy
@anilananth
Aug 3
I've bookmarked this wonderful snippet of @stevenstrogatz -- to use it every time some says to me: 'Oh, you believe in science, it's a matter of faith." When done right, science is not a matter of faith, and scientists with integrity are not afraid of being wrong.
Itai Yanai
@ItaiYanai
Aug 2
I actually don't mind being wrong.. we said this is what's happening on the Millennium Bridge.. what we proposed doesn't work. But it was interesting. We really did stick our neck out & unfortunately got our head chopped off. –Steven Strogatz, Cornell Professor @stevenstrogatz
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Anil Ananthaswamy
@anilananth
Jul 31
My review of @robertwrighter's new book, The God Test, for @undarkmag.
Book Review: The Case for the AI-Powered Global Brain
From undark.org
Anil Ananthaswamy
@anilananth
Jul 27
Writing books brings unanticipated rewards. Writing WHY MACHINES LEARN made possible the most joyful outcome--going back to my alma mater @iitmadras, decades after graduating to teach an Intro to ML/AI course to PhD and Master's students at the @WSAI_IITM (Wadhwani School of
Anil Ananthaswamy
@anilananth
Jul 1
Looking forward to the evening, and meeting you Paras!
Paras Chopra
@paraschopra
Jul 1
Replying to @anilananth and @lossfunk
Excited to host you, Anil! Absolutely loved your book.