Brent Antonson spent years living abroad including extended stints teaching English at universities in Russia, Iraq and China. He circumnavigated the Northern Hemisphere by train over five journeys.
We’re opening the lab: Busy Beaver 6 (BB6) launches in 14 days. A specific kind of research is accelerating right now—and a lot of it doesn’t have a natural home. It’s happening where Consciousness, AI, Mathematics, Physics (and adjacent sciences) overlap. It’s being done by...
The Longest Word in the English Language (That Actually Works) English has a long tradition of showing off its flexibility by stacking meaning like LEGO bricks. Every so often, someone asks the perennial question: what’s the longest word in the English language? Most answers fall into two unsatisfying camps....
