Associate Professor in digital humanities at MIT, dedicated to open-access scientific data.
We enter the forest with smartwatches tightly strapped to our wrists. We measure our heart rate, track our steps, and monitor our pace. In the modern world, we have institutionalised nature, treating the great outdoors… Read More »What the Forest Teaches Us When We Stop Running
A new platform helps people use the internet to organize offline local communities. It reacts directly to the social fragmentation of 9/11. Part of the 16 Internet Evolution Facts: The 2001 Edition archive. HistoricallyVerified
Vice City: The massive hit game fuels internet forums with theories and easter egg hunts. It merges gaming culture with web discussions. Part of the 16 Internet Evolution Facts: The 2002 Edition archive. HistoricallyVerified
In 2025, the tech world stopped being a playground for gadget enthusiasts and a testing ground for corporations. It became our daily ecosphere. This was not just another year of superficial hype surrounding new LLM… Read More »2025: The Year That Forced Us to Mature. Why We Are Launching The Galatea Awards
The year 2025 was defined by the definitive arrival of robust reasoning architectures and the widespread commercial deployment of autonomous multi-agent networks. It was the precise historical phase where the industry successfully bypassed the looming… Read More »30 AI Roots Facts: 2025 Edition
OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic heavily deployed reasoning-first models (pioneered by lineages like OpenAI’s o1 and o3). By utilizing reinforcement learning to train models to generate silent, internal chains of thought during inference, these architectures unlocked… Read More »The Rise of System 2 Reasoning Architectures
Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan N. Gomez, Łukasz Kaiser, and Illia Polosukhin of Google Brain published the seminal paper Attention Is All You Need. By completely eliminating recurrent and… Read More »The Invention of the Transformer Architecture (Attention Is All You Need)
DeepMind published a historic paper in Nature introducing AlphaGo Zero. Unlike previous iterations that trained on millions of human master games, AlphaGo Zero started from complete randomness, learning entirely by playing against itself. Within three… Read More »The Unveiling of AlphaGo Zero
Andrew Ng and Jeff Dean founded the Google Brain research project within the secretive Google X laboratory. By pairing deep unsupervised neural networks with Google’s massive distributed infrastructure, they aimed to solve the challenge of… Read More »The Birth of the Google Brain Project
The public debut of Twitter initiated a continuous stream of real-time, short-form human linguistic data, creating a massive unstructured conversational dataset that would later serve as critical fuel for training social sentiment and text models.… Read More »The Launch of the Crowdsourced Twitter Firehose