The cyber octopus flexes its tense tentacles

Clarity in a house of mirrors: hugging face openai incident reflections

Sep 25 • Marek Barwinski

What does consciousness add to memory?

A conversation with a Nobelist led me to a question: does conscious access change what gets remembered, and can later memory tell us what entered…

Sep 7 • Marek Barwinski

May 2026

From Histones to a Symphony in 16 Bytes

How biological complexity and assembly code exploit the chaos of their environments.

May 27 • Marek Barwinski

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On the principle of least action

When the work is done, the aim fulfilled, they will say: “We did it ourselves.”

May 12 • Marek Barwinski

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December 2025

Schrödinger 1931, Wasserstein 1969, Lipman 2022

Joys of wandering through NeurIPS 2025 poster sessions. From Earth Mover's Distance, to cloud particles.

Dec 6, 2025 • Marek Barwinski

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September 2025

Mentions

The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence by Sebastian Mallaby

Sep 20, 2025 • Marek Barwinski

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Salt, science, and cognitive bias: teaching AI to fact-check itself

How to build and scale tripwires to counter Brandolini’s law

Sep 1, 2025 • Marek Barwinski

May 2025

Playback Paradox

A follow-up on halving the probability space

May 19, 2025 • Marek Barwinski

Grounded intuition of low probability events

Our brains are visually biased, often misled by metaphors that zoom in on the rare event. Reframing improbabilities as the number of coin tosses needed…

May 9, 2025 • Marek Barwinski

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January 2025

Hallmarks of Aging: Deep Dive

How a beautiful, self-healing mosaic of trillions of cells is slowly chipped away.

Jan 3, 2025 • Marek Barwinski

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October 2024

Five stages of teaching a monkey to juggle

When introducing a new technology to an organisation, there are two crucial dimensions to attend to.

Oct 15, 2024 • Marek Barwinski

September 2024

Why patients exhibit resistance to monoclonal antibody therapies?

An investigation of key proteins involved in well regulated human immune system: PD1, IFNG, JAK, STAT and PTEN and how their mutations allow cancer to…

Sep 29, 2024 • Marek Barwinski

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