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Silicon Valley's safe space Cade Metz, New York Times Feb. 13, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail FILE — Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal, in New York, Jan. 7, 2017. The blog Slate Star Codex, written by a Bay Area psychiatrist, became the epicenter of a community called the Rationalists and a window into the psyche of many tech leaders. Then it disappeared. (Andrew White/The New York Times)Andrew White/NYT The website had a homely, almost slapdash design with a light blue banner and a strange name: Slate Star Codex. It was nominally a blog, written by a Bay Area psychiatrist who called himsel...

John Dorfman AP   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. While many individuals and governments have fallen deeply into debt during the pandemic, many companies have strengthened their balance sheets. Each year (2001-06 and 2011 to the present), I’ve compiled a list of companies that qualify as Balance Sheet Powerhouses. Until now, the largest number of companies that made the list was 42, in 2006. This year, 61 companies made it the honor roll. I enjoy compiling this list because I believe investors pay slavi...

Google owner Alphabet beats revenue estimates as cloud losses grow Google revealed hefty losses at its cloud computing division for the first time (Getty Images) Google parent company Alphabet beat revenue expectations for the fourth quarter, but revealed hefty losses in its cloud computing division. The tech giant posted revenue of $56.9bn (£41.7bn) in the final three months of the year, up from $46bn in the same period last year. Alphabet said the figures were driven by strong performance from Google search and Youtube, which account for the majority of its revenue. Advert...

When it comes to chess, computers seem to have nothing left to prove. Since IBM’s Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, advances in artificial intelligence have made chess-playing computers more and more formidable. No human has beaten a computer in a chess tournament in 15 years. In new research, a team including Jon Kleinberg, the Tisch University Professor of Computer Science, developed an artificially intelligent chess engine that doesn’t necessarily seek to beat humans – it’s trained to play like a human. This not only creates a more enjoyable chess-play...

But 2020 saw an advance in science which is even more exciting and important. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been getting a bad press lately. Stories proliferate of how “algorithms” have led to bad decisions. The fiasco over the A-level results in August for example.   It has streams of Luddite detractors at a more intellectual level. They assert, for example, that it can never really think like a human.  The Deep Mind team at Google are famous, in some circles at least, for having created AI algorithms which can wipe the floor with human world champions at both chess and Go. The gam...