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You will think that in the age of AI-powered search, identifying a game like this provided a description or a picture would be a matter of seconds. Not quite.

The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps is an impressive project that began in 2010 with the ambitious goal of covering the entire history of philosophy in a concise yet comprehensive and nearly systematic way.

A MIT/GNU Scheme kernel for Jupyter. Scheme is a functional programming language that is well-suited for describing symbolic mathematics and classical mechanics, among other things.

Is anyone still doing good, old-fashioned machine learning or programming? Or is everyone prompting and trying to tame LLMs (and asking themselves why)? Here's a small programming challenge —an old-fashioned brain teaser and a balm for the soul.

Discover how Stellarium's scripting engine can be used to create engaging astronomical stories and educational content for children.

On the powerful and pervasive ideas in Shannon seminal paper.

A fascinating fictionalized account of John von Neumann's life and his pivotal role in the history of computing. One book by von Neumann and two by Benjamin Labatut.

Graph representations provide the basic principles necessary to understand and generalize to the most relevant architectures, including CNNs, transformers, and, of course, GNNs.

A Numberphile video that didn't go very well.

On how LLMs are coming full circle to resemble programming, but with a few caveats.

Have you seen the Scooby-Doo meme claiming that machine learning is really statistics? Well, guess what? Machine learning is actually optimization (if you dig a little deeper, you'll find that everything is actually optimization 😜).

A book by Adam Becker about the fascinating history and disputes surrounding the interpretations of quantum mechanics.

Constellations are celestial landmarks and a source of awe and inspiration for myths. They are also a canvas on which humans have painted their mythologies. This is a Stellarium remote control for kids.

Why did I choose the most improbably Polish name as my nome de plume? 😆

We often use the word "navigate" in a figurative sense. We want children to learn this or that in order to navigate the world better. What about learning (and teaching) to actually navigate the world?

The most poetic math book a young person can read.

This is a beautiful, short book by Hermann Weyl on a topic at the core of nature, conservation laws, and physics in general.

An amazing book on one of my favorite topics ever, calculus of variations.

A book on the history of games and how deeply human, and intertwined with our culture and essence games are.

Does energy weigh? And if energy weighs, and given how information is stored, does information weigh? If information really weighs, can my head collapse into a black hole when I think of or memorize the decimal representation of a very large number?

A massive, beautifully excuted and formatted math project. An Infinitely Large Napkin.

On how I thought myself to juggle by reading a book by Seymour Papert.

Down the rabbit hole of differentiable programming and modern DL architectures, a book by Simone Scardapane.

This tiny book by Edwin A. Abbot is a masterpiece of mathematical and geometrical adventure; it is also a social satire and a romance. What more can you ask for in a book?

My personal journey of trying to learn quantum computing.

This book is simply superb, a model of how to teach and present ideas. If I ever write a technical book, this is how I would like to do it.

General introduction to mathematical optimization, algebraic modeling languages, and the Julia programming language for optimization.

I am more of a reader than a writer, but as they say, "If you never try...". A short story in Spanish.

Knowledge is power. This presentation, held in Kigali, discusses the importance and pervasiveness of open source.