Joshua Tan

LinkedIn wouldn’t let me write more than 2000 characters in my old “co-mathematician” job description, so I’m posting it here instead.

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The reason for putting artificial intelligence (AI) and governance together in the first place is due to an intuition I had very early on in 2011 as a student of robotics: that there was no mathematical eureka that would “solve” intelligence, that the pro…

There were many, many amazing discussions at the just-finished Applied Category Theory workshop in Leiden, but my favorites were two that discussed the need for an “approximate” category theory, especially in applications to the sciences.

The following table compares general and technical information for a number of existing and hypothetical category theory software packages.

I tend to have a lot of “hot-topic” dinner conversations with people about AI: will robots take our jobs, is software intelligence going to take over the world, and the near-term impacts of big data on everything from science to ecology to law.

Rob Spekkens is a theoretical physicist who works on the foundations of quantum mechanics, which means that he thinks a lot about the meaning of experiments in quantum mechanics: what experiments are for, their relationship to theory, and how to build bet…

Tom Leinster recently posed an interesting question in a talk at CLAP: “how do I generalize a theorem about objects into a theorem about maps?”

For this year’s German pavilion, Anne Imhof designed a 3-foot raised platform of plexiglass that spanned the entire pavilion.

Data warehousing is exactly what it sounds like: create a central storage space for large amounts of data, so that it can be accessed by many different people and applications.